Eric Yuan Quotes

You really want a company that's full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas.

South Florida's international connections mean there's a different kind of innovation here. We're able to intersect with a lot of brilliant people who are not associated with Silicon Valley.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

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

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

Everyone in New York is fluid and thinking and inspiring each other.

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

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

I think the opportunity to bring together the people in the world of politics, business and entertainment and have an opportunity to listen to their best learning and thinking is a great opportunity.

An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

I have learned to create from a hybridized point of view. It's an asset - something rather liberating.

I think people with varying experiences need to be creating.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

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.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

In the 1970s, what I, as a young foreign student studying in the United States, found most dynamic, exciting and impressive about this country is what much of the world continues to value most about the U.S. today: its open intellectual culture, its great universities, its capacity for discovery and innovation.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

The United States is still an enormous generator of innovation, from which other nations have long benefitted. But we now also have the opportunity to benefit from innovation taking place around the world.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.