Peter Thiel Quotes
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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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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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People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
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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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I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
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I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
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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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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.
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Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
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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 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.
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The future is limitless.
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Technology just means information technology.
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The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.
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If you borrowed money and went to a college where the education didn't create any value, that is potentially a really big mistake.
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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.