Peter Diamandis Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• 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, Years, Two

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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

  Peter Diamandis

  Humanity, Benefits, Earth

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

  Peter Diamandis

  Eight, Earth, May

  "Asteroid Impacts Over Russia - Another Larger Rock Passing Very Close to Earth" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• What opened up the American West was the fact that you owned the real estate. You owned the gold mines, the oil wells. The creation of these, back then, million dollar industries drove the railroads and eventually the airlines to provide this kind of transportation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Real, Oil, American West

  "Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis". Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.

  Peter Diamandis

  Space, Want, Way

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• 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

  Meaningful, Tired, Differences

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• 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

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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• Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.

  Peter Diamandis

  Thinking, Race, Space

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• I have the general philosophy of creating the future you want to see.

  Peter Diamandis

  Philosophy, Creating, Creating The Future

  "X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future". Interview with Ted Greenwald, www.wired.com. June 22, 2012.

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• 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

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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