378 Quotes by Peter Thiel

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

If you're trying to develop a new drug, that costs you a billion dollars to get through the FDA. If you want to start a software company, you can get started with maybe $100,000.

If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

I had a good experience in college, but I don't think interdisciplinary education is something that's stressed very much at all. It's generally considered to be something of a bad idea.

Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.

We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.