James Surowiecki Quotes
Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.
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I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
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I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.
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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.
