Richard (Rick)

“This may be one of the most astonishing, and tragic, hummingbird effects in all of twentieth-century technology: someone builds a machine to listen to sound waves bouncing off icebergs, and a few generations later, millions of female fetuses are aborted thanks to that very same technology.”
― Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

“If we think that innovation comes from a lone genius inventing a new technology from scratch, that model naturally steers us toward certain policy decisions, like stronger patent protection. But if we think that innovation comes out of collaborative networks, then we want to support different policies and organizational forms: less rigid patent laws, open standards, employee participation in stock plans, cross-disciplinary connections.”
― Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World

“It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You cannot steal a roses beauty, even if you cover it with thorns.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo