Peter Thiel Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.
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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
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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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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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People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
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I would consider myself a rather staunch libertarian.
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Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
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Technology just means information technology.
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The future is limitless.
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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.