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" When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars. "

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" The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process. "

Peter Diamandis

Gratitude

Energy

World

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

" The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and the oil wells and the gold mines of space. "

" The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic. "

" WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware. "

" In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online. "

" Private companies should be building businesses. "

" 3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed. "

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

" I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky. "

" Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted. "

" Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child. "

" 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. "

Peter Diamandis

Seeing

Inspire

" 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. "

" It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us. "

" If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane. "

" As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup. "

" 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. "

" If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs. "

" 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. "

Peter Diamandis

Collective

Grow

" If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna. "

" 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. "

" Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking. "

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

" Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. "

" If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail. "

" 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. "

" Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so. "

" Future companies will be smaller and more nimble. "

Peter Diamandis

Nimble

Companies

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