Shiva Ayyadurai Quotes

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.

When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

I'm one of those actors who is going to come in with 2,500 ideas. You can shoot down 2,499, but one of them you're going to like.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on.

The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

I'm used to being in creative environments where people throw out a lot of ideas.

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

I'm kind of an idea guy.

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which you can achieve what you want to achieve because there aren't going to be obstacles in your way.

I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in a conference room, plaster the walls with sticky paper, and wait for the ideas to flow in a stream of marker scribbles. How often has your quest for innovation peaked at renovation - new dressing on old ideas?