"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 each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them."

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Source : "The Wise Way to Crowdsource a Manhunt". www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2013.

James Surowiecki

#Smart Quotes #Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself.”

Source : Discours sur le Style (1753)
“Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.”
“I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.”
“A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.”
“We are here because we are made by God, we will return to God. So people who think that they are something, they are totally wrong. And this is the most beautiful thing in life, it is that we don't own anything. So, everything is ours in the sense that we have the world to explore and not things to carry, a burden to carry.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne”

Source : Christopher Love (2012). “The Last Words and Letters of Christopher Love: With A Clear Vindication of His Principles and Practices”, p.142, Puritan Publications
“Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”

Source : Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power' by Norman Cousins in 1987. "At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 118, 1996.
“I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.”

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