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" 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. "

Peter Thiel

Progress

Intelligence

Want

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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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Learning

You

" 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. "

" Anti-aging is an extremely under-explored field. "

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Field

Extremely

" An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role. "

" We protect monopolies with copyright. "

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Monopolies

Protect

" Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" The future is limitless. "

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Limitless

Future

" Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon. "

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Today

Power

" I believe that people are too complacent about technology. "

" Great things happen only once. "

" 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. "