Quotes About Collaboration

Too many cooks spoil the broth, and half-a-dozen gentlemen aboard one ship are as bad as two kings of Brentford.

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

Whereas siblings tend to police you, cousins are your partners in crime.

Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.

Rather than top-down innovation by some of the biggest companies in the world, we're seeing bottom-up innovation by countless individuals, including amateurs, entrepreneurs, and professionals.

only peer production has the capacity to extend as far as the Long Tail can go.

That is how one of the greatest astronomical discoveries of the twentieth century unfolded. A key theory explaining how the universe works was confirmed thanks to amateurs in New Zealand and Australia, a former amateur trying to turn professional in Chile, and professional physicists in the United States and Japan. When a scientific paper finally announced the discovery to the world, all of them shared authorship.

In "open-source" software, where anyone can contribute to a project, the mantra is "With enough eyes, all bugs are trivial." Likewise for astronomy: With enough eyes, we'll see the asteroid with our name on it—and early enough to do something about it.

Knowledge not shared remains unknown

KNOWLEDGE NOT SHARED REMAINS UNKNOWN. —LUIGI L. LEMONCELLO

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

Anything that happens in film industry is a miracle.

I tell everybody, if you've got a band that works, it's a miracle. It's never going to be perfect, but if it works on some level, hold on to it with both hands and don't ever let it go.

It's a miracle that any job comes together.

We are a people who can bring about miracles if united.

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

I don't care how big a director is; if I hear that he's miserable to work with, I'm not going to do it. I'm not gonna be in misery for two months because it's a good career move.

This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat.

We all learn from each other, and I never really hung out with guys in that way, so I missed out.