Vaclav Smil Quotes

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

Collaboration equals innovation.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.

I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.