{"author":"Peter Thiel","author_id":"Peter+Thiel","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["reputation","think","deserve "],"id":1651,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["powerful","college "],"id":96517,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"Technology just means information technology.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["information","just "],"id":97007,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["focus","perseverance"],"id":109497,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["technology","progress "],"id":112306,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["success","good","job "],"id":126371,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"No company has a culture, every company is a culture.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["business","culture"],"id":205249,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["world","live","genius "],"id":241151,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["good","struggle","simple "],"id":242123,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"},{"text":"When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal progress is easy to imagine because we already know what it looks like. Vertical or intensive progress means doing new things—going from 0 to 1. Vertical progress is harder to imagine because it requires doing something nobody else has ever done. If you take one typewriter and build 100, you have made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.","author":"Peter Thiel","tags":["change","development","future","modes-of-progress","progress","technology","types-of-progress"],"id":250731,"author_id":"Peter+Thiel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}