when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.


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20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t...
STEVEN PINKER
Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po...
STEVEN HALL
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
STEVEN WRIGHT
What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is,...
STEVEN LEVITAN
For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfe...
STEVEN PRICE
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate...
STEVEN SINOFSKY
Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b...
STEVEN TYLER
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul All...
STEVEN PINKER
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
The amateur tweets. The pro works.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
STEVEN WRIGHT
One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new wor...
STEVEN STUCKY
Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, fev...
STEVEN BLUM
Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescrib...
STEVEN BLUM
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
STEVEN WRIGHT
I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of vi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG
There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The ...
STEVEN PINKER
I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ...
STEVEN CHU
One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they ...
STEVEN SEAGAL
Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that ...
STEVEN SEAGAL
If God dropped acid, would he see people?
STEVEN WRIGHT
If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News...
STEVEN WEBER
I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a res...
STEVEN LEVITAN
I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
STEVEN WRIGHT
My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ...
STEVEN CHU
I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,...
STEVEN PINKER
Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oa...
STEVEN PINKER
I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral ...
STEVEN WRIGHT
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less i...
STEVEN WEBER