Quotes About Collective Intelligence

#1. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.

Pierre Levy

#2. Don't travel alone ... meet up with others who are traveling also on the path of change, you can learn from each other a lot and together carry more learning experiences (social learning and collective intelligence). -Nadia Gabriela Dresscher

Lambert Of Maastricht

#3. Participating in class, doing your homework, and basically just having your shit together and doing what's got to be done shouldn't be seen as a lame move, it's extremely counterproductive to the fostering of our collective intelligence.

Joshua Neik

#4. I believe that, the prevailing system of management is, at its core, dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together at their best. Deming saw this clearly,

Peter M. Senge

#5. Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications ... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

Tim O'Reilly

#6. Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

Tariq Ramadan

#7. We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Jane McGonigal

#8. We argue that the role of teachers is becoming less that of a knowledge transmitter, and closer to that of an "animator of collective intelligence" who provides analytical tools (the proverbial "fishing rod") rather than simply giving away raw information ("fish").

Marcos C. Lima

#9. Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.

Mike Schmoker

#10. Can collective intelligence save the planet? It's the only hope we have.

Patrick Joseph McGovern

#11. What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

Louise Leakey

#12. Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

Bertrand Russell

#13. No artist has painted
A true portrait of Lenin
Ages to come will complete
Lenin's unfinished portrait.
Did Poletaev understand the tragic implication of his lines about Lenin? (pg179)

Vasily Grossman

#14. The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#15. Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up.

Matt Ridley

#16. How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

Alec Baldwin

#17. Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc. Government is typically cumbersome, plodding, and slow.

Joel Miller

#18. The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

Peter Diamandis

#19. Never arbitrate. Arbitration allows a third party to determine your destiny. It is a resort of the weak.

Attila The Hun

#20. In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Federica Montseny

#21. Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition.

Frederic Morton

#22. Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands.

Don Kardong

#23. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.

Wendell Berry

#24. I'm the only one who owns my fate. Not you. Not your guards. Not your sick operation. No one.

Pepper Winters

#25. At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

Matt Ridley

#26. There is one thing about being President
nobody can tell you when to sit down.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#27. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

Herman Melville

#28. I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.

Jason Chaffetz