Alain Dehaze Quotes

Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.

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

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

I've always been a collaborator. For me, it's, 'What's the issue I'm trying to solve? Who are the people we need to bring around the table to solve it?'

I think that's the beauty of the collaboration with a team. In the end, it never turns out how you imagine, it always is this amalgam of bringing in different perspectives.

I'm a big fan of having a team with different thoughts and backgrounds and experiences; that makes for a better enterprise and better decision-making.

When you have different kinds of scientific and mathematical minds approaching problems, you will get more solutions. This leads to more innovation and more creative design.

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

Most innovation comes from people working together, collaborating in teams.

It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.

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.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Sometimes big problems are best solved with lots of small and creative solutions.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

Nothing great can come of more than three people in a room. If you had 10 incredibly bright people, nothing would come out of it.

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.