Crowds Quote by Drew Curtis

“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

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

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Crowds of minds can be wise, but crowds of bodies just aren't.

— John Seabrook

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

— Billy Graham

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart;…

— Steven Johnson

“When you combine the judgments of a large group of people to calculate the “wisdom of the crowd” you collect all the relevant information…

— Philip E. Tetlock

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

— Michael Shermer

“The theory of the “wisdom of crowds” says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much…

— Simon Kuper

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above…

— Jean Giono

There are idiots in every crowd.

— Heather Graham

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the…

— James Surowiecki