Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
Peter Diamandis
At its core, bitcoin is a smart currency designed by very forward-thinking engineers. It eliminates the need for banks, gets rid of credit card fees, currency exchange fees, money transfer fees, and reduces the need for lawyers in transitions... all good things.
Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
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.
Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?
Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.
Visual artists use drones to capture beautiful new images and camera angles.
Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.
Drones photograph, prospect and advertise real estate from golf courses to skyscrapers; they also monitor construction in progress.
Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.
Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.
When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.
Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.
Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.
Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.
An exponential growth is a simple doubling. One becomes two becomes four.
Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.
Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.
The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.
The truest drive comes from doing what you love.
As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
Imagine what we could do for the world's grand challenges with a trillion hours of focused attention.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?
Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
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.
As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.
If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.
Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
Your chances of dying a violent death are 1/500th of what they used to be during medieval times.
In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.
Government research has to go through peer review.
The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.
With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.
So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.
Old-style management is irrelevant.
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.
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.
True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.
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.
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.
Have an open mind - allow different ideas into your way of thinking.
When I was a grad student at MIT, I had a chance to become friends with the Viking Mission's chief scientist, Dr. Gerald Soffen. Viking was the first Mars lander looking for signs of life on Mars.
