Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
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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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In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
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Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
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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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The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.
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One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.
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All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.
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Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
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Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.
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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.
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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.
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I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
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So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.
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Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.
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If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.