Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. – Paul Valery
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when theres a single numeric average. But if its a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and thats crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. – Jaron Lanier