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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. "

Peter Diamandis

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" Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward. "

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" Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today. "

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" In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years! "

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" Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields. "

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" Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. "

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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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" If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese. "

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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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" Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. "

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" In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup. "

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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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" Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it. "

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

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" At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things. "

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" There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time? "

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" When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant. "

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" I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wanted to inspire them to go much bigger, bolder and more significant than that. "

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

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" Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times. "

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" If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else. "

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" In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education. "

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" 3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process. "

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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. "

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

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