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" Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. "
Peter Diamandis
Day
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Every Day
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" Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted. "
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" Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera? "
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" If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new. "
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" If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering. "
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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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" If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna. "
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" The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. "
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" Government research has to go through peer review. "
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" In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup. "
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" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "
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" Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. "
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" As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. "
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" In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! "
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" You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. "
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" I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Government
Fly
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" Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. "
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" Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business. "
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" We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet. "
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" 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. "
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" I get my news from selected Google News and my social feed. "
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" In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online. "
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" When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. "
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" From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. "
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" If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane. "
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" One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. "
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