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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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Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.
— Charles Bronson
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Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of…
— Tony Campolo
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Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized…
— James Hillman
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The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is…
— John B. S. Haldane
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real…
— Gloria Steinem
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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological…
— William A. Dembski
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Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure;…
— Northrop Frye
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This idea of imposing an order is very interesting to me. Photography is in essence an analytic medium. … In photography, you…
— Stephen Shore
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Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
— Frank Herbert
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If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.
— Timothy Keller
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But then I thought, ‘I see transsexuals and they want healthy parts of their body removed in order to adjust to their…
— Julie Bindel
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Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It…
— Neil Peart
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