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" As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids. "

Peter Diamandis

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

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

" Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking. "

" There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. "

" 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 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. "

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" 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. "

" Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world. "

" Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. "

" Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. "

" Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. "

" In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000. "

" Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging? "

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

" 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. "

" I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives. "

" Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking. "

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

" We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate. "