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" The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt. "

Peter Diamandis

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" With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data. "

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" I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher. "

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" Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020. "

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" Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach. "

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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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" We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate. "

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" Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.' "

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" I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. "

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" It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes. "

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" 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. "

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

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" Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. "

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" Private companies should be building businesses. "

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" As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. "

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" We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy. "

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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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" The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail. "

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" Government research has to go through peer review. "

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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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" In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. "

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" Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. "

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" Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains. "

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" Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision. "

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" In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died. "

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" All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years ago, when we were evolving as a human species, nothing changed. You know, the life of your great-grandparents, you, your kids - it was the same. And so we are local and linear thinkers. "

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

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" Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making. "

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" At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate. "

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" The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. It has gone up as population has gone up. It's gone up as people have concentrated in cities. "

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