Bre Pettis Quotes

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 other people have better ideas.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

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

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

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.

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

There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

At Nokia, we have an internal market for ideas. There could be someone in Nokia who wants research, and they will come to us.

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Collaboration and augmentation are the foundational principles of innovation.

I personally believe that a critical part to innovation is that exchange of ideas so when you say, 'Here's my idea,' someone else at the next table, who is in a different party, will go, 'Oh, these guys are trying that,' so that comes.

The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing is how genius people are. You'll be thinking about some area that needs improving, and then someone just comes in and gives you that little bit of energy. Free online education doesn't solve everything, but you open the window and you build on each other.

The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people. If they're scared or nervous, then they shut off and nobody's ideas [count].

A lot of people are very sacred with their ideas, and there is something to protecting yourself in that way, but there's also something to idea sharing, or being the person who makes the mistake in public so people can study that.