Now, it may be surprising that so many people and organizations - smart people and organizations - would entrust billions of dollars to Bernard Madoff.
It has built handheld devices for archrivals Dell and Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ), smart phones that run the Palm (nasdaq: PALM - news - people ) and Windows Mobile operating systems.
Through fostering smart ideas, mobilizing smart people and supporting the co-creation of smart ventures with community leaders, George Roter has been able to transform EWB into an organization capable of producing sustainable system-changing solutions.
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Brown -- who is fond of saying there are more smart people in the world than effective ones -- is dusting it off from a report filed a few years back by A.T.
Until recently, most politicians, pundits and others among the so-called "smart people" insisted that Election 2012 was all about jobs, jobs, jobs.
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And millions of people have become comfortable using smart-phones to share information about themselves, via mobile apps that access social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
But there are lots and lots of people who are smart, good problem-solvers, good team players, and who take initiative and want to win.
One of the key selling points of Obamacare was that it would reduce cost, in large part through smart public-spirited people making optimized decisions from the top in Washington.
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And the response of the national elite, the people Paul Krugman refers to as "very smart people" or I like to call the "chin-scratchers, " was a barely audible whimper.
Falling in love makes otherwise smart and self-respecting people feel, and act, ridiculous.
They are smart, well-meaning people, in top, well-resourced enterprises, who are working full weeks, often from dawn to beyond dusk.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
You come to see that the women attracted to finance are categorically smart, thick-skinned people, many of whom are used to being academically or professionally successful.
Gene Marks is owner of Marks Group, a technology consulting firm, and author of In God We Trust, Everyone Else Pays Cash--Simple Lessons From Smart Business People.
Once VCs win the option, it's tricky not to exercise it--people will want to know why the smart money isn't buying stock at the offering, says Bob C.
Second (and I think this is particularly true of smart, well-educated people), we tend to think that understanding something is the same as, or as good as, doing it.
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Rest assured that there are a large number of very smart, hard-working people at TWC working to get those who need it the best weather information possible online, through mobile apps and via cable television.
The far bigger problem is the loss of less-well known but wicked smart people like Mark Coatney and Arlyn Gajilian (who used to work for me here, so I can personally attest that its a loss).
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We would further posit that the almost universal current acceptance of this model among cyber security professions also provides an intuitive explanation why so many smart, well-funded people, projects and companies are failing to achieve more meaningful results.
But as you know, although my husband is handsome, charming and incredibly smart, what I tell people -- and especially young people -- because I get to travel around to a lot of college campuses -- and I tell young people that that is not why I married him.
Simple also suggests that for all the advances by deep-pocketed banks, people remain hungry for a retail-banking experience that is fast, cheap and smart.
In some parts of the country, utilities have already begun to install so-called "smart meters" in people's homes.
Research In Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ), maker of the BlackBerry smart phone, but decided he did not want to be in the business of selling consumer devices.
But whatever you think of the mandate, whatever you think of its demerits, you should try to be open-minded enough to recognize that smart people came up with the idea of the individual mandate because it has advantages too.
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It needs to include smart, truly independent experts- and exclude people who have built their careers by touting shaken baby syndrome as a proven common phenomenon.
The smart, creative people are not seeing the screw-ups.
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Tao also appears to abide by the principle that in the hands of smart people, even complicated ideas usually have some easily-accessible core insight.
Ultimately, the SVSC will persist as long as it attracts the kind of smart, talented, friendly, not-arrogant people that Max believes were so helpful to his start-up journey.
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