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" As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior. "

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

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" Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. "

" The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet. "

" The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people. "

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

" People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed. "

" Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. "

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

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

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" The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know. "

" If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs. "

" In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! "

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

" Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they've done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something. "

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

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

" Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so. "

" 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. "

" Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being. "

" The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online. "

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

" At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate. "

" Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that. "

" The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process. "

" Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. "

" Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. "

" Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them. "

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

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

" Making things open-source brings the cost down. "