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

Peter Diamandis

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" In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. "

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" Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation. "

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" The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. "

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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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" Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. "

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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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" An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four. "

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

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" I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors. "

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" All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. "

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" In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher. "

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" A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining companies known as Goldcorp in 1989. A decade later, he'd unified those companies and was ready for expansion - a process he wanted to start by building a new refinery. "

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