Peter Thiel Quotes

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

Every great invention takes a livelihood away from 50,000 men--& within ten years creates a livelihood for half a million.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

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

Technology is a resource-liberating force!

Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in the cutting-edge technologies. And those technologies which are obsolescent get dropped out.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

I don't think love for technology itself breeds change.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.