"The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking."

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Source : "Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter". Book by Alex Pentland, January 30, 2014.

Alex Pentland

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“I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.”
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
“Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.”

Source : "Renee Zellweger: Just the job". Interview With Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.
“Every human being I have ever met, irrespective of the business, the job or life situation they are in, possesses at least one and normally multiple instant jackpots that are within their grasp. All they have to do is recognize them, believe that they are there, and believe that they are entitled to harvest them and the financial and the personal wealth and riches that come along with them.”
“We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.”

Source : Dan Burton's Opening Statement during Congressional Hearing "The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism", www.gpo.gov. June 19, 2002.
“The point is some people think they have a leading role when, really, they're just supporting cast.”
“A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.”
“So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others”

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