American - Businessman | October 11, 1967 -
I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
Peter Thiel
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If you have a business idea that's extremely easy to copy, that can often become something of a challenge or problem.
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From my perspective, I think the question of how we build a better future is an extremely important overarching question, and I think it's become obscured from us because we no longer think it's possible to have a meaningful conversation about the future.
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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.
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Facebook succeeded because it was about real people having a presence on the Internet. There were all these other social networking sites people had, but they were all about fictional people.
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One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.
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I did not want to write just another business book.
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I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.
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I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
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I always find myself very distrustful of intense crowd phenomena, and I think those are things that we should always try to question, especially critically.
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The core problem in our society is political correctness.
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Great things happen only once.
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