Action Quote by Dmitri Alperovitch

“Surowiecki outlined four conditions that characterized wise crowds: 1. Diversity of opinion 2. Independence 3. Decentralization 4. An aggregation mechanism”

— Rich Jolly

“The core idea behind the wisdom of crowds effect is that diverse knowledge and expertise is being collected and aggregated. Essentially, it argues that…

— Rich Jolly

Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing,…

— Hillary Clinton

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology…

— Gustave Le Bon

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people…

— James Surowiecki

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the…

— Jay Samit

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

— Drew Curtis

“Open source is characteristically about herd behavior and local hill climbing. There is such a thing as the wisdom of crowds, but it is…

— Peter Lucas

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

— Charles Bukowski

If you have an adversary, an opponent with an opposing point of view, give that person a platform, regardless of how extreme it may…

— Daryl Davis

One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's…

— Antoine-Henri Jomini

Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the…

— Yochai Benkler