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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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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then…
— Paul Auster
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
— Douglas Adams
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I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back.
— Felix Baumgartner
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
— Buffalo Bill
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Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors,…
— Luther Burbank
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I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more…
— Sherman Alexie
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Crossing at a ford occurs often in a man's lifetime. It means setting sail even though your friends stay in harbour, knowing…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side,…
— Mark Helprin
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Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.
— Bill Maher
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I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a…
— George Carlin
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