Peter Thiel Quotes
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Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.
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Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
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Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
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I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.
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I worked at a law firm in New York very briefly.
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Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.
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I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable.
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Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.
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Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.
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Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.
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People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.
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Contrarian thinking doesn't make any sense unless the world still has secrets left to give up.
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Every time you write an email, it is in the public domain. There are all these ways where security is not as good as people believe.
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You become a great writer by writing.
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If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.
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When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
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Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.
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I think it's always good for gay people to come out, but it's also understandable why people might choose not to do so.
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There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
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I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.
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I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
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I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.
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Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.
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From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.