Top 21 Seely 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
#3. The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
Tariq Ramadan
#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. Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.
Lindsey Vonn
#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
#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. The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself.
John Seely Brown
#12. We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.
John Seely Brown
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.
John Seely Brown
#16. People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters.
John Seely Brown
#17. I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#18. Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.
John Seely Hart
#19. Communism is in conflict with human nature.
Ernest Renan
#21. Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice
Diana Gabaldon
