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

Peter Diamandis

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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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" I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money. "

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

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" Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention. "

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

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" My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. "

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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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" It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford. "

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" Old-style management is irrelevant. "

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" The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development. "

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" If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail. "

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" I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see. "

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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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" As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance. "

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" 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! "

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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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" It's never been easier to share your ideas and passions with the world. "

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

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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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" When hiring, trust your feelings. "

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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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