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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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There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.
Peter Thiel
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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.
Peter Thiel -
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.
Peter Thiel -
Americans mythologize competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines. Actually, capitalism and competition are opposites. Capitalism is premised on the accumulation of capital, but under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.
Peter Thiel -
If I had known how hard it would be to do something new, particularly in the payments industry, I would never have started PayPal. That's why nobody with long experience in banking had done it. You needed to be naive enough to think that new things could be done.
Peter Thiel -
Technology just means information technology.
Peter Thiel -
You can achieve difficult things, but you can't achieve the impossible.
Peter Thiel
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I did not want to write just another business book.
Peter Thiel -
When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
Peter Thiel -
I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
Peter Thiel -
I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.
Peter Thiel -
The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.
Peter Thiel -
If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
Peter Thiel