Bill Gates Quotes

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

The best ideas start as conversations.

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.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

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

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

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

I love collaborating.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

I want to collaborate with people and be a part of a creative community.

When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.

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.

As technology increasingly takes over knowledge-based work, the cognitive skills that are central to today's education systems will remain important; but behavioral and non-cognitive skills necessary for collaboration, innovation, and problem solving will become essential as well.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

You can be stuck for two weeks on a problem, and then you get the right couple of people in a room, and in five minutes, you get a great answer.

Without trust, the most essential element of innovation - conflict - becomes impossible.

Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love to do, that's how most of these ideas are formed.

I love the collaborative process. Getting to meet new people and really building something with them is such a wonderful way to get to know someone.

I believe in taking people away from their desks and making them feel collaborative and inspire one another instead of being siloed.

I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.