Peter Thiel Quotes

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

We live in a world in which courage is in less sup... -Peter Thiel

We live in a world in which courage is in less supply than genius.

College gives people learning and also takes away future opportunities by loading the next generation down with debt.

Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced, and there must be an intense belief in it.

Every one of today's smartphones has thousands of times more processing power than the computers that guided astronauts to the moon.

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

The future is limitless.

Technology just means information technology.

Discovering the context

This quote clarifies that when referring to "technology," the focus is on information technology, which encompasses digital and computer-related advancements. It implies a specific context for the term "technology." It reflects on the narrower definition of technology in this context.

There have been a lot of critiques of the finance industry's having possibly foisted subprime mortgages on unknowing buyers, and a lot of those kinds of arguments are even more powerful when used against college administrators who are probably in some ways engaged in equally misleading advertising.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a t... -Peter Thiel

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

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