Peter Diamandis Quotes

Fear is the worst mindset to prepare for our future.

We're basically turning sunlight, water, and CO2 into storable, transportable fuels — we call 'solar fuels' — to address the other two-thirds of our energy consumption needs that normal photovoltaics miss.

KickStart, started in July 1991 by Martin Fisher and Nick Moon, demonstrates how two individuals can make a significant and measurable impact. Founded to give millions of people the technological means to lift themselves out of poverty,

Electrical signals require electrons, which generate heat, which limits the amount of work a chip can perform and requires a lot of power for cooling. Light has neither limitation. If IBM's estimations are correct, over the next eight years, its new chip design will accelerate supercomputer performance a thousandfold, taking us from our current 2.6 petaflops to an exaflop (that's 10 to the 18th, or a quintillion operations per second) — or one hundred times faster than the human brain.

While the majority of BoP consumers lived on less than $2 a day, it was their aggregate purchasing power that made for extremely profitable possibilities.

low-income housing credit that accounts for some 90 percent of affordable rental housing in the United States. One reason that social entrepreneurs are considered an end to big government social programs is because, with this single credit, Enterprise has outperformed the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on its core issue for more than two decades.

The World's Biggest Problems = Biggest Business Opportunities

But if you sign up for moonshot thinking, if you sign up to make something 10x better, there is no chance of doing that with existing assumptions.

3-D printing removes months and months from product fabrication, building construction

Our days of isolation are behind us. In today’s world, what happens “over there” impacts “over here.

When in doubt: THINK!

Clay Shirky uses the term “cognitive surplus” to describe this process. He defines it as “the ability of the world’s population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects.” “Wikipedia took one hundred million hours of volunteer time to create,” says Shirky.

As of January 2019, Wealthfront had $11 billion under management, while Betterment was at $14 billion. While robo-advisors still account for only roughly 1 percent of total U.S. investment,

I tell my kids that, rather than spending time on YouTube or Video Games, why not create those games they would want to see? With AI, you can start doing that tonight.

"Ipv6 enables the Internet of things," he says, "which in turn holds the promise for reinventing almost every industry. How we manufacture, how we control our environment, and how we distribute, use, and recycle resources. When the world around us becomes plugged in and effectively self-aware, it will drive efficiencies like never before."