Top 233 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Diamandis - Page 3

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?'

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.

There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?

I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.

Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

Since the age of 6, I've always wanted to go to space.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

Private companies should be building businesses.

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.

Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.

The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities.

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery.

I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.

An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world.

Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine.

Human exploration is something that's been going on for thousands of years, and the models that worked 500 years ago are likely to work again today.

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society.

I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States.

I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that.

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

Government research has to go through peer review.

Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

We are racing toward a world of abundance, and we are going to be increasing the quality of life for everyone on this planet. The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.