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Peter Thiel Quotes

American - Businessman | October 11, 1967 -

The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

Mean Question Ask First Economy

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

Data Dumb Fraud Big Because Most

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

Nature Society Believe Think True

I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

Live People Believe Think I Believe

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Live Character Time People Planning

There is a sort of genre of optimistic science fiction that I like, and I don't think there is enough of. One of my favourites is a short story by Arthur C. Clarke, 'The City and the Stars.' It's set in this far future on Earth in this somewhat static society and trying to break out.

Stars Future Science City Society

My hope is that we're going to end up with a far more tolerant society, where the erosion of privacy, to the extent it erodes, will be offset by increased tolerance.

Hope Society End Tolerance Privacy

The optimism that many felt in the 1960s over labour-saving technology is giving way to a fearful question: 'Will your labour be good for anything in the future? Or will you be replaced by a machine?'

Good Future Technology Optimism You

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.

Good Struggle Men Simple People

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Technology Great World New Why Need

There's no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there's something about Silicon Valley.

Entrepreneur Place Right Single

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

You Build Will Way Google Never

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