Matt Mullenweg Quotes

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

No one is as smart as all of us.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

We can arrive at better solutions to any problem or pain together, than we can by ourselves. The beauty of the modern age is that you are able to source answers, and sometimes the genius is in the combination of ideas and energy that does not reside in only one person.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

The thing about working at Pixar is that everyone around you is smarter and funnier and cleverer than you and they all think the same about everyone else. It's a nice problem to have.

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

It seems to me that's the only way you can have a truly creative aggregate of people is if they're all contributing in different ways.

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think, for a lot of people, 'director' connotes giving orders and telling people what to do.

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best music ever.

We've been astonished by how good groups working together can predict the outcomes of events.

Get the entire team involved in identifying and evaluating project risks. Everyone looks at the project differently, and sometimes the input from the student intern can be vital.

My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.