In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling. – Peter Diamandis
By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There’s no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off. – Peter Diamandis
It’s easy to forget that for centuries – for millennia – the ‘workforce’ was all of us. – Peter Diamandis
I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it’s risky. – Peter Diamandis
Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they’ve done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something. – Peter Diamandis
I think about things like, ‘Will my kids need a college account? Will they even go to college?’ I don’t know if that will be the case. – Peter Diamandis
Not only are we working less, we’re enjoying ourselves more. As we’re working toward this world of abundance, we’re able to increasingly enjoy leisure time. – Peter Diamandis
Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news. – Peter Diamandis
As humans, we have evolved to compete… it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition. – Peter Diamandis
If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail. – Peter Diamandis
Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there’s a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world. – Peter Diamandis
Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well. – Peter Diamandis
Whether it’s steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it’s typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators. – Peter Diamandis
You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today’s world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one’s watching, whether it’s an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city. – Peter Diamandis
It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that’s become next to impossible. – Peter Diamandis
From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface. – Peter Diamandis
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there’s a chance of success. – Peter Diamandis
In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn’t have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off! – Peter Diamandis
Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it. – Peter Diamandis
The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest market opportunities. And that’s a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process. – Peter Diamandis
Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends’ and loved ones’ faces live. – Peter Diamandis
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online. – Peter Diamandis
