Peter Thiel Quotes
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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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I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
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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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Great things happen only once.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
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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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Airbnb is undervalued.
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There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.
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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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Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
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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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Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
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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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One of my first investments was $100,000 in a Web-based calendar startup - and I lost every dollar.
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We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.
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I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
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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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I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.