Bulldozers Quote by Matt Taibbi Download Open image “Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.” — Matt Taibbi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bulldozers Eggs Environment Groupthink Nature Throwing
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Wisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other. These stances are not abstract rules but… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
A group of idiots led by a wise man can defeat a group of wise people led by an idiot. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“groupthink occurs when people “are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group,” and their “strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Always prefer to be a fool in a group of dumb intelligent people, as it makes me more smart. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Groups are capable of being as moral and inteligent as the individuals who form them; a crowd is chaotic, has no purpose of its… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I get the cynicism thing all the time, although I don't really know where that comes from, because I think I'm actually the opposite… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end. — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
They say that faith can move mountains, so can bulldozers, so can nuclear weapons. I'm not really sure if that's what faith is intended… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Not that I was ever an asshole but I used to be much more of a bulldozer. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
Once you leave Sundance suddenly you run into bulldozers and concrete and cranes, and all that heritage that the Mormon culture used to be… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers. — George Will Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists.… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and… — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
In the early days, computers inspired widespread awe and the popular press dubbed them giant brains. In fact, the computer's power resembled that of… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
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