The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up make eye contact and smile.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Unfortunately poetry is not born in noise in crowds or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

The future belongs to crowds.

Kolkata is a great city has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for and even handling the crowds but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters the decision is made by committee and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.