Peter Diamandis quote: "In the genomics world, we are supporting Craig Venter's original vision of getting an ability to have gene sequencing occur for the masses. While we have a single genome sequenced, the real benefits for humanity come when there are tens of thousands of genomes sequenced and the computing power available today can correlate certain sequences with certain diseases or drug interactions."

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day...
PETER DIAMANDIS

I was seeing a lot of entrepreneurs who were effectively working on the next photo-sharing app. I wa...
PETER DIAMANDIS

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huf...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people...
PETER DIAMANDIS

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pa...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
PETER DIAMANDIS

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, t...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.
PETER DIAMANDIS

WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acqu...
PETER DIAMANDIS

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, sho...
PETER DIAMANDIS

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
PETER DIAMANDIS

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when mal...
PETER DIAMANDIS

At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bow...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also mo...
PETER DIAMANDIS

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand gala...
PETER DIAMANDIS

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Reso...
PETER DIAMANDIS

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% conti...
PETER DIAMANDIS

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the b...
PETER DIAMANDIS

My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what y...
PETER DIAMANDIS

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, bi...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
PETER DIAMANDIS

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
PETER DIAMANDIS

I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it'...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it...
PETER DIAMANDIS

At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to rac...
PETER DIAMANDIS

A dapper Canadian in his mid-fifties, Rob McEwen bought the disparate collection of gold mining comp...
PETER DIAMANDIS

An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
PETER DIAMANDIS

In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in develo...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all...
PETER DIAMANDIS

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd&...
PETER DIAMANDIS

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

The Rocket Racing League will inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky to find ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.
PETER DIAMANDIS

Lindbergh made the flight to win a prize, not as a personal objective. I really saw the power of tha...
PETER DIAMANDIS

so important to the future of space exploration and space travel.
PETER DIAMANDIS

New aerospace technologies coupled with the spirit of competition will not only extend the boundarie...
PETER DIAMANDIS

We're creating an event that has multiple things happening over two-weeks and during a fixed period ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

People need to understand how exponential technologies are impacting the business landscape. They ne...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there&#...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thous...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering ou...
PETER DIAMANDIS

When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chi...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.
PETER DIAMANDIS

The rate of innovation is a function of the total number of people connected and exchanging ideas. I...
PETER DIAMANDIS

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had n...
PETER DIAMANDIS

All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,0...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

In 1976, Kodak's first digital camera shot at 0.1 megapixels, weighed 3.75 pounds, and cost over...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our ur...
PETER DIAMANDIS

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.
PETER DIAMANDIS

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this wo...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
PETER DIAMANDIS

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.
PETER DIAMANDIS

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.
PETER DIAMANDIS

You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dr...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business?...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Elon Musk with PayPal revolutionized banking.
PETER DIAMANDIS

It will be a couple of weeks about speed and excitement...technology and adventure for the whole fam...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Adventure travel is the fastest growing segment of the leisure travel business. And these X-Prize ve...
PETER DIAMANDIS

For me, it is a remembrance of sort of 'Star Wars' pod racing, ... Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phant...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
PETER DIAMANDIS

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can d...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.
PETER DIAMANDIS

Paul Allen with Microsoft revolutionized the software industry.
PETER DIAMANDIS

As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared ...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.
PETER DIAMANDIS

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicula...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?
PETER DIAMANDIS

In one sense, the X Prize has already succeeded. We've sparked a diverse set of vehicles that are be...
PETER DIAMANDIS

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in th...
PETER DIAMANDIS

The communications industry has been tremendously successful, but we need to build the railroads and...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accom...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space explor...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the ga...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give...
PETER DIAMANDIS

In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space...
PETER DIAMANDIS

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Now, we connect via Skype or Google+ Hangout and see our friends' and loved ones' faces live...
PETER DIAMANDIS

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a b...
PETER DIAMANDIS

I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.
PETER DIAMANDIS

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL

Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON

Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other membe...
PETER SINGER

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.
PETER WASTHOLM

Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a grow...
PETER USTINOV

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
PETER USTINOV

A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who's allowed to sit down occasionally.
PETER USTINOV

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can...
PETER KUMP

I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and ...
PETER YORK

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past...
PETER MANDELSON

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical,...
PETER CAPALDI

Our situation here, without any exaggeration, is beyond description almost; it is such as eye has no...
PETER OLIVER

About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was...
PETER SCOLARI

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Departme...
PETER ORSZAG

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boule...
PETER O'TOOLE

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems o...
PETER USTINOV

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN

What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every t...
PETER VIERECK

In most countries, it is possible to visit zoos and see bored animals pacing back and forth in cages...
PETER SINGER

Church members in too many cases are like deep sea divers, encased in the suits designed for many fa...
PETER MARSHALL

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...
PETER DRUCKER

I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustaine...
PETER THIEL

There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, ho...
PETER NOONE

The break-up of a relationship is always difficult, especially a 30-year one.
PETER HOOK

Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI

Salvador Dali, lying on his deathbed in a stupor, is said to have been fed thousands of sheets of bl...
PETER LANDESMAN

Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey ...
PETER ACKROYD

Celebrity poverty, that's the hidden scandal in Blair's Britain. You can't help but worr...
PETER YORK

I'm not a fashion architect. I don't dress in Ralph Lauren and Gucci. When I buy a suit, I b...
PETER EISENMAN

Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize...
PETER RENA

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
PETER HANDKE

Only in this world of topsy-turvy attitudes could outright stupidity, such as I had displayed, be so...
PETER DAVID

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.
PETER KREEFT

Twisting lemons into lemonade.
PETER DUCHAN

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