Peter Thiel Quotes
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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.
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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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I did not want to write just another business book.
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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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There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.
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I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
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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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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
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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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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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Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
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The future is limitless.
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Technology just means information technology.
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I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
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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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You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
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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.