Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?
Peter ThielCustomers wonโt care about any particular technology unless it solves a particular problem in a superior way. And if you canโt monopolize a unique solution for a small market, youโll be stuck with vicious competition.
Peter ThielHigher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Peter ThielThere are quite a lot of people who think my aspirations are not possible. That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about these people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously- and they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late.
Peter Thiel