Marvin Minsky Quotes

To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.

In part because individual judgement is not accurate enough or consistent enough, cognitive diversity is essential to good decision making.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

For me, when we're all human beings, it's just interesting that we cannot understand the other person or how they think. That's one part of the human aspect that fascinates me.

To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.

There is a greed case for diversity. Diverse perspectives bring us into markets we didn't know existed.

Every organization, every city is different.

Having a range of perspectives allows you to tell stories through a different lens and approach things from fresh angles. If you're straining everything through the same filter, you're always going to wind up with the same product.

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

The brain alone is intricate beyond mapping, powerful beyond imitation, rich in diversity, self-protecting, and self-renewing. The secret is that it is grown, not built.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.