Peter Diamandis Quotes

In a few years, humans will become the first animals that get their protein from other animals without any animals being harmed along the way.

The bottleneck in AI is no longer the chips — it's not even the money. It's the boring, unglamorous, century-old electronic hardware.

Nicholas Sullivan, in his book about the rise of microloans and cellular technology, You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy,

cultural evolution yielded the most powerful tools for cooperation the world has ever seen.

Longevity does not come from one breakthrough alone, but from a thousand tiny measurements and experiments that are currently underway.

Hollywood spent decades teaching us to fear AI. Now AI is coming for Hollywood, an interesting way of ironies writing themselves.

when Steve Jobs said that the goal of every entrepreneur should be to “put a dent in the universe” — he wasn’t talking about inventing the next Angry Birds.

With 97.3 percent of the water on the planet too salty for consumption, and another 2 percent locked up as polar ice,

People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.

The human brain evolved in an environment that was local and linear. Local, meaning most everything that we interacted with was less than a day’s walk away. Linear, meaning the rate of change was exceptionally slow. Your great-great-great-grandfather’s life was roughly the same as his great-great-grandson’s life. But now we live in a world that is global and exponential. Global, meaning if it happens on the other side of the planet, we hear about it seconds later (and our computers hear about it only milliseconds later). Exponential, meanwhile, refers to today’s blitzkrieg speed of development. Forget about the difference between generations, currently mere months can bring a revolution. Yet our brain — which hasn’t really had a hardware update in two hundred thousand years — wasn’t designed for this scale or speed. And if we struggle to track the growth of singular innovations, we’re downright helpless in the face of converging ones. Put it this way, in “The Law of Accelerating Returns,” Ray Kurzweil did the math and found that we’re going to experience twenty thousand years of technological change over the next one hundred years. Essentially, we’re going from the birth of agriculture to the birth of the internet twice in the next century. This means paradigm-shifting, game-changing, nothing-is-ever-the-same-again breakthroughs — such as affordable aerial ridesharing — will not be an occasional affair. They’ll be happening all the time. It means, of course, that flying cars are just the beginning.

Charities may give people food. But social entrepreneurs don't just teach people to grow food — they're not happy until they've taught a farmer how to grow food, make money, pour the profits back into the business, hire ten other people, and in the process, transform the entire industry.

There are now more than seven billion people on the planet. If trends don’t reverse, by 2050, we’ll be closer to ten billion.

In 2018, an AI ran for mayor of a province in Japan. It didn't win, but the race was a lot closer than anyone expected.

In 1950 the global world product was roughly four trillion dollars," he says. "In 2008, fifty-eight years later, it was sixty-one trillion dollars. Where did this fifteenfold increase come from? It came from increased productivity in our factories equipped with automation.

If I were an exponential entrepreneur looking to create tremendous value, I'd look for those jobs that are least enjoyable for humans to do. . . . Given that the global market for unskilled labor is worth many trillions of dollars, I would say this is a huge opportunity.