Kevin Kelly Quotes

No one is as smart as all of us.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

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

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.

I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

When you go into something where you can really trust that everyone has thought about it, more than you have even, then that's like a gift.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers.

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

I not only use all the brains I have but I borrow what I can from everyone about me.

was not, like the fabled Goddess of Wisdom, the offspring of a single brain. It ought to be regarded as the work of many heads and many hands.

“The Wisdom of Crowds” suggests that if enough bumbling people act in concert, they’ll find their way to a less bumbling place.

I don't think I'm any smarter than any of my developers.

We've been astonished by how good groups working together can predict the outcomes of events.

My experience from working with people is that you can have a conversation with someone or have a meeting with a group of people, and from that meeting will derive an answer to a question that no individual could have ever thought of by him or herself.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.