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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#average #before #choosing #committee #crap

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar. ↗

— Michael Storm

#banjo #folk #folk music #guitar #i

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#advanced #any #back #beliefs #derivative

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. ↗

— Joseph Story

#advisable #ambition #consciousness #dangers #deemed

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#architecture #behind #believe #budget #city

Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside. ↗

— William E. Geist

#been #fleeing #grown #grown men #men

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months. ↗

— King George V

#am #boy #dead #himself #i

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#family structure #fight #fighting #find #had

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#actually #administration #africa #again #american

We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating.They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#clear #entrepreneurs #great #leaders #moral