Peter Diamandis Quotes
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At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.
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People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
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Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
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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.
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If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
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3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.
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As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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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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Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
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If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.
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There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
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If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.
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Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
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All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
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Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.
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Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
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Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
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What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?