Matt Ridley Quotes

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.

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

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

No one is as smart as all of us.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

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

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Some of my best thinking is done by others.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work requires legions of people. In order to do things well, that can't be done by one person, you must find extraordinary people.

The quality of an idea does not depend on its altitude in the organization...An idea can be from any source. So we will search the globe for ideas. We will share what we know with others to get what they know. We have a constant quest to raise the bar, and we get there by constantly talking to others.

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

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.

Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

One man interacting creatively with others can move the world.

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

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

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

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

I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.

No deliberation made by a single person will be successful; the nature of the work which a sovereign has to do is to be inferred from the consideration of both the visible and invisible causes. The clearance of doubts as to whatever is susceptible of two opinions, and the inference of the whole when only a part is seen is possible of decision only by ministers. Hence the king shall sit at deliberation with persons of wide intellect.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.