{"author":"James Surowiecki","author_id":"James+Surowiecki","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["reality","play","run "],"id":9240,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["success","computers","company "],"id":18557,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["technology","digital","leaving "],"id":27557,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["challenge","environment "],"id":38730,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["business","writing","ideas "],"id":54285,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["fun","capitalism","real "],"id":57244,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["real","messy","ambiguous "],"id":96180,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["listening","research","career "],"id":105438,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["rich","prohibition","betting "],"id":118491,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["business","history","internet "],"id":120764,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}