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James Surowiecki has 150 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
— Russell Baker
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Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
— John F. Kennedy
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It is a commonplace of American life that immigrants have made our country great and continue to make a very important contribution…
— William J. Clinton
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Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a…
— Timothy Leary
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Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any…
— Chester Himes
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Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we…
— Sarah Vowell
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The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life…
— J. William Fulbright
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In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and…
— Norman Mailer
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The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible…
— Herbert Hoover
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I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that,…
— Richard Dawkins
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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad…
— Harold Rosenberg
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The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and…
— Susan Sontag
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