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Yuri Milner
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: November 11
Entrepreneur
Physicist
Moscow
Russian SFSR
Yuri Borisovich Milner
Yuri Bentsionovich Milner
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I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
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The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.
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The largest newspaper in the United States is only reaching 1 percent of population. We are kind of assuming that 'Wall Street Journal,' 'USA Today,' and other newspapers are very important. Yes, they're extremely important, but only to 1 percent of the population on a daily basis.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.
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Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
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Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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The problem is that modern fundamental physics is so far from you and me. The mathematics has become so much more complicated that you need at least 10 years to understand it. Fundamental physics has advanced so far from the understanding of most people that there is really a big disconnect.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
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