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The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.
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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.
Peter Thiel
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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 believe that people are too complacent about technology.
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The core problem in our society is political correctness.
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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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There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
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I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
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Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.
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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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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 believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
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College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.
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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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A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.
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In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene.
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There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
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Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.
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As an undergraduate at Stanford, I started 'The Stanford Review,' which ended up being very engaged in the hot debates of the time: campus speech codes, questions about diversity on campus, all sorts of debates like that.
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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 investments may look crazy but really may not be.
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Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
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People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
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