Clive Thompson Quotes

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Feeling and thinking are actually the blind man who carries the lame.

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

The best way to know people is to work with them.

I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in preproduction or in production or postproduction - the behavioral chess. That is, learning and being humbled by and also teaching certain people certain things. I love that. As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

All human interactions are opportunities either to learn or to teach.

Two heads are better than one.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

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.

Sometimes chemistry does the trick, and other times, you have to forge that with the people.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

You don't have to know everything as long as you know people who know the things you don't

It is almost as if the human brain were specifically designed to misunderstand Darwinism, and to find it hard to believe

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.