I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives. Peter Diamandis More Quotes by Peter Diamandis More Quotes From Peter Diamandis The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine. Peter Diamandis crazy government ideas In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off! Peter Diamandis organization years school My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it. Peter Diamandis car beautiful people The folks who go after grand challenges are impatient. They're pissed off. They're sick and tired, but in a passionate way. They're driven by a fire in their bellies to make a difference. Peter Diamandis tired differences meaningful We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us. Peter Diamandis pda car attention When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster. Peter Diamandis gps car world The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable. Peter Diamandis suvs pounds ideas The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient. Peter Diamandis print energy years In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it. Peter Diamandis boeing aerospace government You should command and demand the tenfold leverage on your dollars when you give it away as well. Peter Diamandis demand dollars giving Today, philanthropy is a very unsophisticated, old world process where people who make a shitload of money go and give it away and when they're making their money, they're focused on 10x, 100x returns on the dollar. Peter Diamandis dollars giving people If you stop and you think about everything we hold of value on this planet, metal, minerals, energy, real estate, the things that nations fight wars over. These things are in near infinite quantities out there. Peter Diamandis fighting real war If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy. Peter Diamandis energy believe needs We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies. Peter Diamandis body earth moving The thing about frontiers, it allows the individuals who are best, whether they're men or women or minorities or whatever, to step to the top. So in traditional societies, old world societies, in the United Kingdom if you would; if you were born into the right stratus, the right class, you had the ability to succeed. Peter Diamandis minorities class men Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly. Peter Diamandis united-states government trying Space is not a two-year objective. It used to be, in the early '60's, we had this eye candy of Mercury and Gemini and Apollo and every year we would do something more and more and it met those needs. But the easy stuff has been done. Peter Diamandis eye two years NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be a balance and NASA is going to do certain things and we are finally in a state of existence where small groups of individuals can do extraordinary things, funded by single people. Peter Diamandis groups balance people I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see. Peter Diamandis creating-the-future creating philosophy I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space. Peter Diamandis passion kids years
