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" In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. "

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" 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. "

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" My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician. "

" I collect a lot of data. We all do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. "

" Old-style management is irrelevant. "

Peter Diamandis

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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. "

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

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

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

" It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. "

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

" 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. "

" Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away. "

" Incentive prizes work. "

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

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

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

" 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? "

" If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family. "

" I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it. "

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

" In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday. "

" Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration. "

" Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. "

Peter Diamandis

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