Peter Thiel Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

• Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

  Peter Thiel

  Country, Technology, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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 sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

  Peter Thiel

  Running, Fun, Islamic

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

• If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.

  Peter Thiel

  Optimistic, Technology, People

  Interviewed with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

• In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

  Peter Thiel

  Fate, Technology, Our World

  "The Education of a Libertarian". www.cato-unbound.org. April 13, 2009.

• One of the reasons I think people are increasingly nervous about U.S. debt is because they think that we are not actually digging ourselves out of the hole, but instead are digging ourselves into a deeper and deeper hole and will not be able to pay it back because we're not actually creating the new technologies that will enable us to pay back and the money somehow is not really being invested in the future or in progress.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Thinking, Creating

  Source: bigthink.com

• A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Keys, Order

• It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Technology, Games

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

• Customers won’t care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you can’t monopolize a unique solution for a small market, you’ll be stuck with vicious competition.

  Peter Thiel

  Unique, Technology, Competition

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.123, Crown Business

• I think China thinks information technology is less important than we think it is in the US, economically, and more important politically. And so Chinese internet companies are extremely political, they're protected behind the great firewall of China, and investment in Alibaba is good as long as Jack Ma stays in the good graces of the Chinese communist party. Alibaba is largely copying various business models from the US; they have combined some things in interesting new ways, but I think it's fundamentally a business that works because of the political protection you get in China.

  Peter Thiel

  Party, Thinking, Technology

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, World, Globalization

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

• People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

  Peter Thiel

  Believe, Technology, Thinking

• Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

  Peter Thiel

  Technology, Thinking, Progress

  Source: bigthink.com

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