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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 is environmental illiteracy and a complete lack of forward thinking to ignore the need to halt and then reverse population growth…
— Phil Harding
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once…
— Rem Koolhaas
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Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.
— Jane Jacobs
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One expect summed it up by saying: "Trying to cure traffic congestion by building more roads is like trying to cure obesity…
— Unknown Author
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In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.
— Lewis Mumford
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the [congestion] charge that everybody else is paying…
— Ken Livingstone
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As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.
— Julius Genachowski
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Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.
— Van Day Truex
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If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.
— Prince Philip
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Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against…
— Ellen G. White
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A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion…
— Corrine Brown
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