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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…

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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…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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 think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations. — Buzz Aldrin
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne
I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for… — Pete Conrad
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Upon identifying the reason for the… — Richard P. Feynman
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight. — Robert Crippen
The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried… — Robert Crippen
In 2009 I went up on the space shuttle. I was in space for 16 days and docked at the space station… — Thomas Marshburn
Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home, his face… — Jack Handey
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. — Jon Lester
Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as… — Barry S. Strauss
My daughter just thinks that all moms fly the Space Shuttle — Eileen Collins

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