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Smart Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the…
- Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.
- The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will…
- Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially…
- Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
- For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of…
- Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
More Smart Quotes
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- The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. — Jean Baudrillard
- Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when… — Zygmunt Bauman
- Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. — Scott Adams
- I guess I've got a smart wife. — Yogi Berra
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- Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart. — Joe Biden