Jack Kilby Quotes

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

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 could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

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

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Creativity is our North Star. This way of working and this speed, this new opening and innovation, putting everything in discussion must remain at the base of what we do.

But sport is about character. It is about understanding how a team works, about pushing the team. I also wanted to do it because of where I am from as a human being. That's what London people want: thinking outside the box, new ideas.

You may find it more relaxing to work with people just like you, but entrepreneurship is about finding new approaches to problems, and discomfort can be an important part of that process.

We gotta bring new ideas to the table and empower each other.

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.

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.

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

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Sometimes if you have a coach or team-mates for too long, you get caught in certain routines. I think it's good to shake up things a little bit.