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" My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance. "

Peter Thiel

Society

Hope

End

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" The core problem in our society is political correctness. "

" Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human. "

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" We protect monopolies with copyright. "

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" The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them. "

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You

" I think competition can make people stronger at whatever it is they're competing on. If we're competing in some athletic event for competitive swimmers, really intensely competing, it's likely that both of us will become better, but it's also quite possible we'll lose sight of what's truly valuable. "

" The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed. "

" The future is limitless. "

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" All of us have to work toward a definite future... that can motivate and inspire people to change the world. "

" How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle. "

" Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it. "

" There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley. "

" It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work. "

" People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why. "

" College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt. "

" In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger's where it's like you're missing the imitation, socialization gene. "

" Seventy percent of the planet is covered with water, and there's so much we can be doing with oceans, and it was one of the frontiers that people have more or less abandoned. "

" Technology just means information technology. "