Peter Diamandis Quotes
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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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Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
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We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
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I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.
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True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
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I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.
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The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.
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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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If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
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The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
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Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
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Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
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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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In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.
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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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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?
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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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I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.
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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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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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In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
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I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
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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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Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.