Famous Quotes

"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 on Wisdom

More quotes about Wisdom

• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom

• "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."

  Aldous Huxley on Wisdom

• "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

  Audrey Hepburn on Wisdom

• "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

  Confucius on Wisdom

• "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

  Michael Jordan on Wisdom

More quotes by Jaron Lanier

• "Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

• "What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means."

• "My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff."

• "Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction."

• "Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions."