If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

  • -- James Surowiecki 索罗斯基

如果有人真的想要我公司的业务,他为什么不能尽他所能——包括付钱给我——来得到那项业务呢?因为贿赂鼓励人们根据错误的标准做出决定,这意味着在商业世界中,贿赂扭曲了资源的有效配置。

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Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.

任何人都可以写一个故事,基于你在车里看到一个人,然后在后座看到一个坏人的那种恐怖。依靠它来讲故事是幼稚的。这就像上床睡觉时想着床下有个怪物。这是愚蠢的。

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

当涉及到社会后果时,他们让不同的人以不同的方式行事,甚至很难有一个正确的成功标准。所以,这是一项艰巨的任务。

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

我从来没有基于种族做出决定,将来也永远不会。