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" 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. "

Peter Diamandis

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" As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth. "

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" The truest drive comes from doing what you love. "

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

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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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" When hiring, trust your feelings. "

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

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

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" Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. "

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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. "

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" 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? "

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" We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy. "

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" Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. "

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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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" Incentive prizes work. "

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" Government research has to go through peer review. "

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" 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. "

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" The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt. "

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" I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before. "

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" Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.' "

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

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" 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. "

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" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink. "

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" It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. "

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" Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. "

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

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