“We have limited foresight into the future. Most of us...

“We have limited foresight into the future. Most of us lack the ability and the desire to make sophisticated cost-benefit calculations. Instead of insisting on finding the best possible decision, we will often accept one that seems good enough. And we often let emotion affect our judgment. Yet despite all these limitations, when our imperfect judgments are aggregated in the right way, our collective intelligence is often excellent.” — James Surowiecki