#desi

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

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#achieve #american #american companies #because #companies

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. ↗

— Henry George

#desires #fed #increase #man #never

The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#continuing #designer #every #fluently #i

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. ↗

— John Langdon

#both #designer #fine #graphic #i

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. ↗

— John Langdon

#design #illusions #interwoven #into #language

Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#always #behaviour #beings #case #comes

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #budget #class #clear #designed

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. ↗

— Jay Leno

#designated #designated driver #driver #each #reason

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#bottom #bottom line #designed #god #how