Jesse James Garrett Quotes

I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.

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.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

He who does not know how to create should not know.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

I generally will answer any question about anything.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

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.

Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

Today, because knowledge is available on every Internet-connected device, what you know matters far less than what you can do with what you know. The capacity to innovate — the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life — and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.

If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.

Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It's about education and reaching out.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

I hate the word 'rendering,' as it equates to 'pouring concrete' on ideas that demand continuing dialog. 'Trade secrets' imply hoarding of knowledge.

I just like working with smart people.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done alone. It is through talking with others and sharing that progress is made.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.