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I don't believe any particular ethnic group is smarter than any other group.

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.

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.

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

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

Everybody can be smart.

Because we are communal creatures, if you're with people who think you're smart, you're smart, and if they think you're dumb, you're dumb.