Connections Quotes

“Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.”
― James Burke, Connections

“Last but not least, knowledge mapping's contextualizing capability facilitates community-wide consensual innovation assessment.”
― James Burke, Connections

“On why 300 years separates the first use of glass lenses in spectacles and their use in a telescope: “In many cases there are times when an invention is technologically possible – and in which it may indeed appear necessary, as the telescope may have – but without a market the idea will not sell, and in the absence of the technical and social infrastructure to support it, the invention will not survive.”
― James Burke, Connections