If you really consider differences of opinion and dissenting views and different experiential bases, what you get is a richer and more accurate view of the world.*
Carmen Medina

Here lies a man who was able to surround himself with men far cleverer than himself.**
Andrew Carnegie

The same idea or thought or opinion repeated
over and over
isn’t smart:
The smartest person in the room is
the room;^
I love it when ideas resonate –
How people in different fields can be
saying similar things to each other about life, but,
Better still when they add to or subtract from or supplant –
Life is more than complicated:
Complex systems create unexpected and
unpredictable outputs. They’re probabilistic and
unstable, not deterministic
the way we expect.^^

*Matthew Syed’s Rebel Ideas;
**gapingvoid’s blog: Should We Bring Back the Jester;
^Part of the subtitle of David Warren’s Too Big to Know;
^^Seth Godin’s This is Strategy.