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• Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals.
  When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional....
• Many people believe that a few individuals or small groups (family, friends, teachers, celebrities, for example) have caused them to think and behave in the way they do.
  Yet it is always society as a whole that defines us and our attitudes, not a few individuals....
• The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals.
  The most significant events and trends in history were made possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten....
• People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which as individuals, they know are stupid.
• To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write with the assumption that one out of a hundred people who read one's work may be dying, or have some loved one dying
  o write so that no one commits suicide, no one despai...
• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
  -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champio...
• People see what they have been conditioned to see; they refuse to see what they don't expect to see.
  -- Merle P. Marti...
• The bombardment of visual images in contemporary society has the effect of making people less able to focus clearly and extensively on a single issue over a long period of time.
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....