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For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.

Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

People are smarter than you might think.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.