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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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After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start…
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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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The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across…
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Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from…
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The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too…
— Harry Reasoner
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The media can be an instrument of change. It can maintain the status quo and reflect the views of the society or…
— Katie Couric
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You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do…
— Duane G. Carey
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PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD:…
— Gene Roddenberry
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I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an…
— Norman Foster
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I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian…
— Ron Davies
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Some people say things that might confuse people about the correct belief in God. A man on T.V. was talking about how…
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