henry copeland:
Isaac Asimov's recipe for creativity: multi-meetings of 4-6 foolish, not-crazy-smart people pllqt.it/rgFLBA
Isaac Asimov's 1959 advice to MIT think-tank on creativity
If a single individual present is unsympathetic to the foolishness that would be bound to go on at such a session, the others would freeze. […]If a single individual present has a much greater reputation than the others, or is more articulate, or has a distinctly more commanding personality, he may well take over the conference and reduce the rest to little more than passive obedience. […] I should guess that no more than five would be wanted. A larger group might have a larger total supply of information, but there would be the tension of waiting to speak, which can be very frustrating. It would probably be better to have a number of sessions at which the people attending would vary, rather than one session including them all. […]It is not what people say at these conferences, but what they inspire in each other later on.)- www.technologyreview.com