Peter Thiel Quotes
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When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
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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.
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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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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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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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I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
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I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
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I did not want to write just another business book.
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Technology just means information technology.
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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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The future is limitless.
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I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
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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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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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The model of the U.S. economy is that we are the country that does new things.
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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.