Peter Diamandis Quotes
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The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.
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It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.
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The truest drive comes from doing what you love.
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Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
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In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.
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As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.
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By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.
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Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.
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Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.
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In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
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If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.
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When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
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If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.
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Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.
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Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
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Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.
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The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
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I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.
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It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.
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At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.
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After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.