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Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Peter Diamandis

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Peter Diamandis
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 20
Entrepreneur
Physician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
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You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.
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A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.
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I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.
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The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.
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Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.
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When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.
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Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.
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I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.
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Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it. That's how remarkable happens.
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We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.
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It's sad that the U.S. government doesn't fund risky research anymore.
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My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.
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The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference.
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