Crowd Sourcing Quotes & Sayings

Singling out "women's fiction" for genre derision never fails to piss me off. Somehow worse when women do it. Case in pt: Editor says crowd-sourcing editorial for romance & erotica not bad idea b/c "no great artistry at stake" Yes, genre fiction not high art. But it's a craft we take seriously, writing for love of storytelling, not writing whatever sells. — Kelley Armstrong

To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal. — Carmelo Anthony

I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use 'crowd-sourcing' to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers. — Mariam Naficy

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation. — Jay Samit

There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas, the bursting outward of their force: not in books expressing them, but in events manifesting this force, in struggles carried on around ideas, for or against them. Ideas do not rule the world. But it is because the world has ideas (and because it constantly produces them) that it is not passively ruled by those who are its leaders or those who would like to teach it, once and for all, what it must think. — Michel Foucault

If you expect more from yourself than from others, you are saying that you are better than others and, therefore, must perform at a superior level. I do not mean that you should not set goals for yourself. Rather, the question is, how do you react if you cannot meet these goals? Honestly admitting that you may have not done your best is not judgement. It is judgement when you draw a conclusion about yourself based on your ideas about failure.
Honesty involves taking responsibility; judgment has to do with blame. To view yourself as bad or a failure because you did not accomplish what you set out to do is judgment. To state clearly and simply that you did not accomplish your plan is taking responsibility. — Judith Hanson Lasater

But this is exactly why I read
and don't belong to a book group
because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix. — Peter Orner

At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are located, but more importantly, where they are not. — Darell Hammond

I think Twitter is a fabulous tool. Crowd-sourcing by Twitter is useful in getting early warnings. — Bill Keller

A reasonable person believes, in short, that each of his beliefs is true and that some of them are false. — Jordan Ellenberg

When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing. — Rebecca Goldstein

The deck is stacked against Obama. — Ron Fournier

My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it. — Robert Gober

Sosa argues that epistemic negligence resulting from closing off inquiry can detract from one's epistemic performance and possibly result in the loss of knowledge. In addition, he argues that closing off inquiry can also result in the loss of rational belief since the origins of one's belief are continually fading from view, which requires that one's current evidence play a primary role in rational belief. — Jonathan Matheson