134 Quotes by Peter H. Diamandis

Today most poverty-stricken Americans have a television, telephone, electricity, running water, and indoor plumbing. Most Africans do not. If you transferred the goods and services enjoyed by those who live in California’s version of poverty to the average Somalian living on less than a $1.25 a day, that Somalian is suddenly fabulously rich.

When faced without a challenge, make one.

The ego-belittling truth the Internet makes visible is that none of us is as unique as we’d like to believe.

The way I think about it, if you want to invent, if you want to do any innovation, anything new, you’re going to have failures because you need to experiment. I think the amount of useful invention you do is directly proportional to the number of experiments you can run per week per month per year. So if you’re going to increase the number of experiments, you’re also going to increase the number of failures.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.

I’m a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you’ll be squashed very quickly.

The free flow of information has become so important to all of us that in 2011 the United Nations declared “access to the Internet” a fundamental human right.