Peter Diamandis Quotes
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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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I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
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Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?
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When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.
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The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
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When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'
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In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.
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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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As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.
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Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
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From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.
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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
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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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An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
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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 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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WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware.
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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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I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.
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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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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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Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
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In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!
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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.