Seely Brown Quotes & Sayings

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. — John Seely Brown

Processes don't do work, people do — John Seely Brown

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

Spaghetti ... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1,000 of something is too many. I'll have 1,000 pieces of noodles. — Mitch Hedberg

My war had been so long, my winter so cold. But i had made it home. And for the first time in a long time, i was not afraid. — Ruta Sepetys

Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows. — John Seely Brown

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks. — John Seely Brown

As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified. — Emily Yoffe

He has made me glad and no one can make me sad. He makes me shout and no one can make me doubt ... — Billy Bray

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

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell. — William Shatner

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

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. — Clint Eastwood

The most important invention that will come out of the corporate research lab in the future will be the corporation itself. — John Seely Brown

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough. — Natalie Imbruglia

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

People need to know more than what a piece of information means. They also need to know how the information matters. — John Seely Brown

My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act. — Narendra Modi

What if
we just
acted like
everything
was easy? — Mary Anne Radmacher

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel. — Natan Sharansky

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

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning. — John Seely Brown

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

Conversation is a catalyst for innovation — John Seely Brown