Intelligence is becoming a utility just like electricity. - Peter Diamandis

People think that bold projects don’t get funding because of their audacity. That’s not the case. They don’t get funded because of a lack of measurability. Nobody wants to make a large up-front investment and wait ten years for any sign of life. But more often than not, if you can show progress along the way, smart investors will come on some pretty crazy rides.

the tools of cooperation have become so powerful that once properly incentivized, it's possible to bring the brightest minds to bear on the hardest problems. This is critical, as Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy famously pointed out: "No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how something CAN'T be done.

An expert is disincentivized to promote someone else's disruptive solution, bc if it results in a wholesale change in their field, they go from expert to has-been.