“I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.” UsedBoysGroupsCircumstancesAuthoritySmartExpensesBeing SmartSubversiveSmart And Funny Author:Eric Idle
“Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.” PeopleKnowsShouldLittlesGroupsSweetSmart Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing; Black and Blue
“We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable when you think about solving these problems. And we try to challenge those assumptions.” ThinkingTryingProblemGivenChallengesCitiesGroupsDesignSmartResearchFundamentalsAssumptionMit Author:William J. Mitchell
“We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.” KnowsMenNeedsStillsEnoughGuySpaceAnimalRoomsCasesWifeGroupsSmartSpeciesMalesCowsThat Guy Author:Julia Phillips
“The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is to protect the region's open space and environment. We want to build a community that is demonstrates smart growth rather than a model for L.A.-type growth.” WayWantGrowthNatureCommunityLinesSpaceLevelsSupportEnvironmentGroupsPolicyTypeProtectModelsSmartGreenEmployeeRegionsValleysConservationManufacturingSiliconSilicon ValleyOpen SpacesSmart Growth Author:Carl Guardino
“Smart brands never try to appeal to more than their audience group. Assuming you're audience is one of the segments that watches, it's your chance to galvanize this specific group, which is larger here than anywhere else, with a bold new idea that can re-magnetize the human/brand connection for a new year.” TryingYearsHumansIdeasChanceWatchesAudienceGroupsSmartConnectionsAssumingBrandsAppealsNew YearNew Ideas Author:Joshua Rogers
“Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations and enabled new forms of social interaction. The alphabet enabled empire and monotheism, the printing press enabled science and revolution, the telephone enabled bureaucracy and globalization, the internet enabled virtual communities and electronic markets, the mobile telephone enabled smart mobs and tribes of info-nomads.” PeopleActionFormSocialCommunityGroupsMediaCommunicationRevolutionInternetCivilizationSmartPressesRateAvailableScalesEmpiresCollectivesInteractionTribesBureaucracyTelephonesGlobalizationMobilePrintingAlphabetNomadSocial InteractionPrinting PressMonotheismCollective Action Author:Howard Rheingold
“All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers.” KnowsMenWorldGovernmentRunningLyingForgetLevelsGroupsStageSmartManagementAverageBurdenCorporationsEnterpriseSheerAssociatesRapidsUndertakingsMoronRailroadsSmall GroupsCiphersSmart Man Book:Minority Report Source: Minority Report
“The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.” PeopleProblemGroupsSmartIndependentCrowdsParadox Author:James Surowiecki
“From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.” PeopleKidsSchoolFoundInterestingGroupsSmartHigh SchoolMusicalHatedCompellingHungHippie Author:Sandra Bernhard