Seely Brown Quotes

#1. John Seely Brown, the former director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, once said, The essence of being human involves asking questions, not answering them.

Eric Schmidt

#2. Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

Craig Groeschel

#3. When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.

Dan Hill

#4. It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

John Seely Brown

#5. I'm paying the third highest alimony and child support in the world. And the only two ahead of me are sheiks.

Burt Reynolds

#6. The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

John Seely Brown

#7. The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

John Seely Brown

#8. The moment we stop caring for one another regardless of race..is the moment we lose our humanity.

James Morris Robinson

#9. If you can design the physical space, the social space, and the information space together to enhance collaborative learning, then that whole milieu turns into a learning technology.

John Seely Brown

#10. I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

John Ensign

#11. He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.

Rumer Godden

#12. The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.

John Seely Brown

#13. Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.

John Seely Brown

#14. We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

John Seely Brown

#15. Processes don't do work, people do

John Seely Brown

#16. For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to think about designing the types of institutions we need to get things done in this rapidly accelerating world.

John Seely Brown

#17. Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.

John Seely Brown

#19. The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

John Seely Brown

#20. People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.

John Seely Brown

#21. You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.

Thornton Wilder

#22. Why was the host (victim predestined) sad?
He wished that a tale of a deed should be told of a deed not by him should by him not be told.

James Joyce

#23. Many critics are born of envy.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#24. If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

Gaylord Nelson

#25. The plot is deceptively simple. Condensed even fur- ther, it might read as a personal ad in some questfinder's forum: Unlikely hero to save world from cataclysm. Seeks motley assortment of companions. Sidequests guaranteed.

Michael P. Williams

#26. Conversation is a catalyst for innovation

John Seely Brown

#27. My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

Geraldine Brooks

#28. Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

Ludwig Wittgenstein