Top Highlights

• “The development of knowledge may depend on maintaining an influx of the naïve and the ignorant, and . . . competitive victory does not reliably go to the properly educated.”
• of The Wisdom of the Hive,
• “The result seems more creditable to the trustworthiness of a democratic judgment than might have been expected.”
• under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.
• economist Herbert Simon called “boundedly rational.”