Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

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

Creative collaboration is awesome.

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

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

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.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

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.

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.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

There is something special when creative people get together.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.

Diverse groups do best at complex problems and innovation when the facts aren't clear: each individual's perspective allows him or her to tackle challenges differently and, when stuck, rely on others' differing points of views to progress.

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

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people you're putting in a room together. More than three to five is probably too many.

I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.

By collaborating, you can do very interesting things.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

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.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.