"Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them."

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James Surowiecki

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“I have a profound passion for the act of flying. It's very freeing, with an intense physicality, but it also gives an Olympian, god's-eye view, which fuels a larger cerebral and structural analysis.”
“I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.”
“Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life...”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black
“The script just can't commit the sin of being boring.”
“When I was training to be a pilot, there was a large section in the book on how to drop mail from the plane.”
“I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.”
“When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.”
“I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.”

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