Peter Diamandis Quotes

The era of garage biology is upon us. Want to participate? Take a moment to buy yourself a molecular biology lab on eBay. A mere $1,000 will get you a set of precision pipettors for handling liquids and an electrophoresis rig for analyzing DNA. Side trips to sites like BestUse and LabX (two of my favorites) may be required to round out your purchases with graduated cylinders or a PCR thermocycler for amplifying DNA. If you can't afford a particular gizmo, just wait six months — the supply of used laboratory gear only gets better with time. Links to sought-after reagents and protocols can be found at DNAHack. And, of course, Google is no end of help.

The most important metric of the next decade: dollar value per token. The tokens that generate the most value will get the most compute.

You can burn the fecal portion of the waste and use that energy to completely clean up the urine, turning it back into water and solids,

If you’re forced to reduce objectives you believe are rightfully yours, it may be time to stop, reassess, and do a pivot—head in a new direction...and ask for more.

Stuff goes wrong. Expect it, learn from it, fix it — that’s how remarkable happens.

Peter's Laws™ The Creed of the Persistent and Passionate Mind 1. If anything can go wrong, fix it! (To hell with Murphy!) 2. When given a choice — take both! 3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes. 4. Start at the top, then work your way up. 5. Do it by the book . . . but be the author! 6. When forced to compromise, ask for more. 7. If you can't win, change the rules. 8. If you can't change the rules, then ignore them. 9. Perfection is not optional. 10. When faced without a challenge — make one. 11. No simply means begin one level higher. 12. Don't walk when you can run. 13. When in doubt: THINK! 14. Patience is a virtue, but persistence to the point of success is a blessing. 15. The squeaky wheel gets replaced. 16. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live. 17. The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself! 18. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. 19. You get what you incentivize. 20. If you think it is impossible, then it is for you. 21. An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how something can't be done. 22. The day before something is a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. 23. If it was easy, it would have been done already. 24. Without a target you'll miss it every time. 25. Fail early, fail often, fail forward! 26. If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. 27. The world's most precious resource is the persistent and passionate human mind. 28. Bureaucracy is an obstacle to be conquered with persistence, confidence, and a bulldozer when necessary.

This is the perfect time to become a CREATOR, the future will belong to those who build. AI just handed you the superpower to do that.
You don't need to be an expert.

Teaching kids how to nourish their creativity and curiosity, while still providing a sound foundation in critical thinking, literacy and math, is the best way to prepare them for

Bold objectives--solving world hunger or creating global literacy--are not impossible. We live in a day & age where impossible things are becoming possible every day.

Computers run our world and algorithms run computers, which begs the question: Where do algorithms come from? Fear of poetry, that's where. Fear of the maddening influence of poetry.

if everyone on Earth wants to live like a North American, then we're going to need five planets' worth of resources to do

The Wright Brothers lifted off in 1903," he says, "but by 1908, only ten pilots had ever flown. Then they traveled to Europe to demonstrate their aircraft and inspired everyone. The aviation world changed overnight. Inventors began to realize, 'Hey, I can do that!' Between 1909 and 1912, thousands of pilots and hundreds of aircraft types were created in thirty-one countries.

Lightwave, another emotional-computing startup, can capture not just the emotional state of an individual, but that of a whole crowd. It's already been utilized by Cisco to judge a startup pitch competition, helped DJ Paul Oakenfold increase listener engagement at a concert in Singapore, and measured viewer reactions during a pre-screening of The Revenant.

There are 2.7 billion people in the developing world without access to financial services

today we live in a world that is global and exponential. The problem is that our brains — and thus our perceptual capabilities — were never designed to process at either this scale or this speed. Our linear mind literally cannot grok exponential progression.