Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

From a young age, I learned to focus on the things I was good at and delegate to others what I was not good at. That’s how Virgin is run. Fantastic people throughout the Virgin Group run our businesses, allowing me to think creatively and strategically.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

I rely on other people every day of my life.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.