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" The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online. "

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" Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness. "

" Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise. "

" When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business. "

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

" The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago. "

" My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship? "

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

" Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being. "

" Private industry's job is to make money. Private industry's job is to create a huge economic engine. "

" It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible. "

" 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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" Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera? "

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

" I think about things like, 'Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?' I don't know if that will be the case. "

" One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images. "

" 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. "

" Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time. "

" Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways. "

" By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off. "

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