Explore Quotes by Peter Diamandis

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They need to do some future-casting and look at how industries are evolving and being transformed.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

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

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD... over and over again.

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

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

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

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

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.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

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.

In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over $10,000.