Peter Thiel Quotes
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I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
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My only claim is that not all talented people should go to college and not all talented people should do the exact same thing.
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Great things happen only once.
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The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.
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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
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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 one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.
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The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'
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If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.
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I'm not a politician. But neither is Donald Trump. He is a builder, and it's time to rebuild America.
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The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'
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I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
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Airbnb is undervalued.
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Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'
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Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
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I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
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Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
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It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.
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I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
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What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
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I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
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I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.