Louis B. Rosenberg Quotes

When a species wants to tap the collective intelligence of a population, they don't take a poll; they don't take a vote. They form a real-time system.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

How does nature amplify the intelligence of groups? It forms swarms.

Beyond individual intelligence, nature has also cultivated intelligence through swarms. For example, bees, birds and fish act in a more intelligent way when acting together as a swarm, flock or school.

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

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

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.

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

Because books are written by individuals, it has often made knowledge seem like the product of individuals, even though everybody has always understood that individuals are working within the social network.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Learn from the masses and then teach them.

I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.

Nature creates natural swarms. UNU uses networking technology and algorithms to take advantage of the knowledge, wisdom, and insights of a large group of people by allowing them to think as one.

The reason that fish form schools, birds form flocks, and bees form swarms is that they are smarter together than they would be apart. They don't take a vote; they don't take a poll: they form a system. They are all interactive and make a decision together in real time.

A poll finds the average opinion of a group. It takes the temperature of a crowd. A swarm focuses a group together, in real time, and has them work together as a system to answer a question instead.

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still, it is never complete.

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.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

A swarm finds the solution people best agree upon. It optimizes collective support, whereas a poll tells us how we disagree.

I'm always learning from the boys around me.

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