• Michelle Obama, the wife of the 44th and current President of the United State

• Mark Twain, American author and humorist• Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer• Coco Chanel, French fashion designer• Bill Gates, American business magnate, philanthropist,

investor, computer programmer, and inventor• Jennifer Lopez, American actress, author, fashion

designer, dancer, producer, singer, and songwriter• Nicole Kidman, Australian actress, singer and film

producer• William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright and actor• George Washington, first President of the United States• Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist, engineer and innovator

James Surowiecki

• “In some cases, groups are remarkably intelligent and are often smarter than the smartest people in them.”

• “Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.” 

• “Groups do not have to be dominated by exceptionally intelligent people in order to be smart.”