Quotes About Collaboration

As an early advocate for neighborhood policing, I've been heartened to see the tangible impact of police officers spending less time in their station houses and more time on our street corners, developing collaborative relationships with residents and businesses that help us fight and deter crime.

One of the tangible benefits of the merger is that we are not vying with each other for work. We can now focus on organizing work in one place. There is no SAG, no AFTRA, only SAG-AFTRA.

Tank is my boy. I'm the first artist he's ever been on the road with. We go all the way back to 'Pony.' He was my background singer on my tour.

The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

I'd like to put together a think tank of people - economists, futurists, city planners, a few department-store people - to discuss reinventing the department store.

My big break down here was working with Steven Spielberg in '1941.' It was a very small role, as Corporal Foley, who was part of the tank crew with Dan Aykroyd.

Me and my brothers decided to form a group called T.G.T. - Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank.

calling colleagues "customers" puts a wedge between IT and the rest of the business.

It is agreeable to imagine a future in which the tiresome 'analytic–Continental split' is looked back upon as an unfortunate, temporary breakdown of communication – a future in which Sellars and Habermas, Davidson and Gadamer, Putnam and Derrida, Rawls and Foucault, are seen as fellow-travelers on the same journey, fellow-citizens of what Michael Oakeshott called a civitas pelegrina. (Rorty 1997a, pp. 11–12)

The Magistrate and Empress stand arm in arm like the monster-movie American Gothic.

If I find anything, I'll send you a copy. Leave your address with Maggie on the way out. And that's a hint about where you should be headed right now.

cooperation is the highest from of self-interest.

The young guns on your team will always want to write things themselves because it appeases their ego, whereas your more experienced people are more likely to accept that someone else has given thought to the problem domain and has something to offer in terms of a solution.

Most projects are built by people, and those people are the foundation for success and failure. So, it pays to think about what it takes to help make those people successful.

Equally, there's a good chance that there's someone who you think is "just not doing it right" and is undermining the project. In these cases, the technology you need to solve your problem is very old and well established indeed, in fact it's possibly the most important technical innovation in the history of humanity. What you need is a conversation.

As a developer you rarely get the time to sit back and really look at how the whole system fits together. As an architect, this is your main focus. While developers are furiously building classes, methods, tests, user interfaces and databases, you should be making sure that all those pieces work well together.

The long-term interests of the software development team are best served when business drives.

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

No idea is too strange or ridiculous. An unworkable idea may inspire in someone else an idea that will work.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between scientists, not above them.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

We means all of us, the American community.