Peter Thiel Quotes

People are optimistic about the future.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.