Quotes About Collaboration

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Dr Frost and Dr Bohrmann

much as we like to think of ourselves as isolated nomads bumping up against each other from time to time, we are our relationships

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. -Roosevelt to Churchill

Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships… The ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together and work together, in the same world, at peace…

The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.

Fishing cooperatives,

Innovations must not only be valuable, they must also be put to use by others in society.

Value networks are needed to succeed within a field. That's why we form them. And that is, as you may have guessed, where all the trouble starts.

It essentially meant that anyone was allowed to use Linux as long as they did not sell it, and

Why are we so hesitant about working in diverse teams? The reason is at least in part a function of human nature. Humans have a tendency to stick with people who are like themselves and avoid those who are different. Psychologists have a name for this tendency. They call it the similar-attraction effect.

Creating diverse teams is one of the best ways to encourage click moments.

Too much expertise, as we have seen, can fortify the associative barriers between fields. At the same time, expertise is clearly needed in order to develop new ideas to begin with.

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.