Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
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Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.
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We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
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Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.
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Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.
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Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.
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In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.
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Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
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The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.
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I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
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Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
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In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
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It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.
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I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
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Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
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I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free.
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In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.
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Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?
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Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
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The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.
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In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.