Peter Diamandis Quotes

This difference is key. Thinking in probabilities — this business has a 60 percent chance of success — rather than deterministically — if I do A and B, then C will definitely happen — doesn't just guard against oversimplification; it further protects against the brain's inherent laziness.

A quarter of the planet's available landmass is currently used to keep 20 billion chickens, 1.5 billion cattle, and 1 billion sheep alive —

One concept lately gaining momentum is “impact investing” or “triple-bottom-line investing,” whereby investors back businesses that generate financial returns and meet measurable social or environmental goals.

This is one of the most telling features of the web — the somewhat humbling fact that no matter what oddball notion you’re deeply passionate about, well, there are plenty of folks who share the same passion.

London and Paris, for example, are significantly more productive than the rest of Britain and France. In America, our hundred largest cities are 20 percent more productive than all others. In Uganda, urban workers are 60 percent more productive than rural ones. Shenzhen’s GDP, meanwhile, is three times larger than the rest of China.

better responses to the threat of scarcity is not to try to slice our pie thinner — rather it’s to figure out how to make more pies.

How many of us die before we’re done?

Netflix is creating content. A lot of content. In 2017, they spent $6.2 billion on original movies and TV shows, outspending major studios such as CBS ($4 billion) or HBO ($2.5 billion), and just shy of the $8–10 billion-a-year range of heavyweight contenders like TimeWarner and Fox.

Enter Light Field Lab, a California-based startup manufacturing the first-ever display technology able to generate those trillions of photons. While their initial displays are only four- by six-inches across, they're capable of projecting a holographic image two inches thick, viewable

In the developing world, where sanitation issues cause tremendous death and disease, this will obviously save millions and millions of lives, but in the developed world, three-quarters of our water bill is the cost of hauling away waste and running sewage treatment plants. So the goal is to solve both problems: to find a way for people to go to the bathroom that doesn’t involve running water or sewage, while still rendering human waste completely harmless.

who needs soil when there’s water? The idea of growing food in water dates back, at least, to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. But hydroponics, the growing of food in a nutrient-rich solution, is a more modern development.

National Science Foundation report on the subject pointed out, "nanotechnology has the potential to enhance human performance, to bring sustainable development for materials, water, energy, and food, to protect against unknown bacteria and viruses, and even to diminish the reasons for breaking the peace [by creating universal abundance].

The cost of reasoning is collapsing 10x faster than the cost of bandwidth did in the 90s. Society is moving from "AI as a tool" to "Intelligence as a Utility." When reasoning is too cheap to meter, the only bottleneck left is the physical world. This is why Optimus is the most important product in history. It’s the bridge from digital abundance to physical reality.

new technology creates greater opportunities for specialization, which increases cooperation, which leads to more capability, which generates new technology and starts the whole process over again. We also see it repeated throughout evolution.

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.