Quotes About Collaboration

People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.

I would like to thank Sally Harding, my agent, and the fine people she works with at CookeMcDermid. Without Sally, this book would have never been written.

If there is a problem to be solved, and many people involve themselves in the solution, then a hierarchy must and will arise, as those who can do, and those who cannot follow as best they can, often learning to be competent in the process. If the problem is real, then the people who are best at solving the problem at hand should rise to the top. That is not power. It is the authority that properly accompanies ability.

A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution, with other people, in the most efficient manner possible (efficient, because there are other problems to solve, and efficiency allows for the conservation of resources that might then be devoted importantly elsewhere).

The information in our experience is latent, like gold in ore—the case we made in Rule II. It must be extracted and refined with great effort, and often in collaboration with other people, before it can be employed to improve the present and the future.

The best player is therefore not the winner of any given game but, among many other things, he or she who is invited by the largest number of others to play the most extensive series of games.

people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized.

It takes a village to organize a mind.

I'm a collaborator and opponent even when I'm not talking. I can't help it. My expressions broadcast my response, even when they're subtle.

I've never liked the word team . I've always equated it with being picked last and getting nailed in the groin with a dodgeball.

Mark Twain is good on this: "It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others.

Mathematics, mostly, is a communal enterprise, each advance the product of a huge network of minds working toward a common purpose, even if we accord special honor to the person who places the last stone in the arch.

Te das cuenta de que en estas semanas, desde la llegada de Paul, hemos compuesto más canciones y hemos ensamblado más temas que en todo este año, desde que empezamos a tocar?

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

No viven juntás las gentes sin más ni más y porque sí; esa cohesion a priori sólo existe en la familia. Los grupos que integran un Estado viven juntos para algo: son una comunidad de propósitos, de anhelos, de grandes utilidades. No conviven por estar juntos, sino para hacer juntos algo.

Europe is really a swarm: many bees on a single course.

Nasa isip ng lahat na ang gobyerno, bilang isang institusyong likha ng tao, ay nangangailangan ng tulong ng lahat, nangangailangan ito ng magpapakita at magpapaalam sa mga tunay na pangyayari.

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

It is not hard work, because all work together... what one hand finds hard to lift is lighter than a feather when many lift together.

Americans all benefit from the physical and institutional infrastructure that has developed from the country's collective efforts over generations.

She told them everything she could. Garvin asked all the questions; Scarpino, clearly the recessive gene, said nothing, took notes.

You can measure the health of relationships, teams, and organizations by measuring the lag time between when problems are identified and when they are resolved.

What you should do is hire very smart people who are a good fit. And then you should expose them (and yourself) to ideas. The ideas should come from within and from outside.

El objetivo de la argumentación o de la discusión, no debe de ser la victoria, si no el progreso