“reducing human capabilities into specialized tasks that computers can be trained to conquer one by one.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“This would be depressing but for one crucial fact: humans are distinguished from other species by our ability to work miracles. We… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you invest in Microsoft or Oracle, or a number of other companies for that matter, you're fundamentally making a bet that… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“. . . the bond bubble, the tech bubble, the stock bubble, the emerging markets bubble, the housing bubble. . . One… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“STARTUP THINKING New technology tends to come from new ventures—startups. From the Founding Fathers in politics to the Royal Society in science… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Most of a tech company’s value will come at least 10 to 15 years in the future.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today our challenge is to both imagine and create the new technologies that can make the 21st century more peaceful and prosperous… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“New technology has never been an automatic feature of history. Our ancestors lived in static, zero-sum societies where success meant seizing things… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“when I arrived at Stanford in 1985, economics, not computer science, was the most popular major. To most people on campus, the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I think we have a bubble in the US in government bonds, because of the quantitative easing and the negative real interest rates, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Time and decision-making themselves follow a power law, and some moments matter far more than others” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today, we exaggerate the differences between left-liberal egalitarianism and libertarian individualism because almost everyone shares their common indefinite attitude. In philosophy, politics, and business,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
When you already have $150 billion a year in revenues from the iPhone, it's very hard to come up with any new vertical that… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“CREATIVE MONOPOLY means new products that benefit everybody and sustainable profits for the creator. Competition means no profits for anybody, no meaningful differentiation, and… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“we have given up our sense of wonder at secrets left to be discovered.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Today our society is permeated by the twin ideas that death is both inevitable and random.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“if your company can be summed up by its opposition to already existing firms, it can’t be completely new and it’s probably not going… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“If you’ve invented something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business—no matter how good the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
