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" The fact is that data are worth a lot of money. "
Peter Diamandis
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" Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers. "
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" Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world. "
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" Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it. "
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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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" In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000. "
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" So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think. "
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" I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's going to make that look ancient?' "
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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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" I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways. "
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" If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family. "
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" In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. "
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Average
" After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones. "
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" Incentive prizes work. "
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Prizes
" Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business. "
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Passion
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" An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four. "
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Two
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" The truest drive comes from doing what you love. "
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You
Doing
Drive
" By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty. "
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Will
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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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" Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear. "
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Bad
Always
" As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids. "
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You
Bold
Company
" 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. "
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Challenge
Crazy
Before
" It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. "
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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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" Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone. "
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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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" 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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" Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live. "
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Now
" 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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" The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. "
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True
Adage
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