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I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

So while I can't tell you if bringing a child into this world is the morally-responsible to do, I can say that the future, much like the present, is going to be a whole lot better than you think.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.

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

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.

Your mission is to find a product or service that can positively impact the lives of 1 billion people because that's the game we're playing today.

The world's biggest problems are the world's biggest market opportunities. And that's a huge thing. Solve hunger, literacy and energy problems, get the gratitude of the world and become a billionaire in the process.

Nothing gets us down more than watching violence on television or reading about war and brutality in the newspaper. The truth is, there's a massive reduction in the amount of violence around the world.

You might hear people decry the loss of privacy in today's world, but radical transparency is dramatically reducing violence everywhere. Most violent things happen in the dark when no one's watching, whether it's an oppressive dictator or someone causing violence in the inner city.

As sensors and networks continue to expand around the world, we'll see violence drop even further. After all, when there's a danger that your actions can be caught on tape and shown around the world, you're more responsible for your behavior.

Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'

Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.

The reason we care so much about what happens to the likes of Lady Gaga is not because her shenanigans will ever impact our lives; rather because our brain doesn't realize there's a difference between rock stars we know about and relatives we know.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.

In most developed countries, the average person receives about 16 years of education. Even in developing countries, the population gets five to eight years of education.

As education becomes dematerialized, demonetized and democratized, every man, woman and child on the planet will be able to reap the benefits of knowledge. We're rapidly heading toward a world of education abundance.

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation.

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.

Never before in history has the global marketplace touched so many consumers and provided access to so many producers.

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

The goal of my work is to help assure that we can create a world of abundance in which we meet the basic needs of every man, woman and child.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half of minorities at that time - 45 percent - were illiterate, while 94 percent of white citizens were literate.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

Even a small village in the middle of Africa with a 3D printer will have access to any good it can download. The world of the 'Star Trek' replicator is not far away.

It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Not only are we working less, we're enjoying ourselves more. As we're working toward this world of abundance, we're able to increasingly enjoy leisure time.

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth.

We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!

What decisions would you make differently today if you knew you would most likely live to be 150? How would you think about your 50s or 60s? How would you evaluate your career arcs or investments or even the area in which you live?

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware.

Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.

If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.

If the idea is really new and unique and big, other people will all think it is bad and is going to fail.

When I talk about taking bold actions in the world, few things are bolder than creating the 'Huffington Post' from scratch and reinventing the newspaper business.

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

My personal fascination with the power of the crowd has been growing: Exactly what can a 'crowd' accomplish? We know crowds can raise billions of dollars, create Wikipedia, and even design and build small autonomous drones. But how about something large and complex like designing a new car, and maybe someday even a spaceship?

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

I had started Zero-G specifically to broaden the public for access to weightlessness.

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

Whether it's steamships disrupted by the railroads or railroads disrupted by the airlines, it's typically the large entrenched incumbents that are displaced by innovators.

The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are likely to fail.

As of the mid-90s, over 50 percent of women have a bachelor's and master's degree, compared to about 35 percent and 30 percent, respectively, in 1920.

Most advertisers spend millions upon millions of dollars to buy commercial time during the Super Bowl, and millions in creating eye-popping ads, hoping to create catchy, unforgettable commercials. Unfortunately, most Super Bowl commercials end up being unmemorable. Costly mistakes for brands and creative flameouts for advertising firms.

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.

Remember when vacation photos meant toting along a bulky camera?

Because it's free, easy to use, and high-quality, photography is now a fixture in our daily lives - something we take for granted.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

From a scientific point of view, we now know that the water is interlaced with the lunar soil in many locations, perhaps as remnants of comet collisions with the lunar surface.

With sufficient water on the Moon, solar energy can be used to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen is, of course, critical for humans to breathe and the water important for us to drink.

Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.

If you've been wondering where the next gold rush is going to take place, look up at the night sky to our closest celestial neighbor. The next economic boom might just be a mere 240,000 miles away on the bella luna.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

If you look back 600 years ago, royals' sole goal was to keep their wealth within the family.

Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.

Old-style management is irrelevant.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.

The U.S. government doesn't build your computers, nor do you fly aboard a U.S. government owned and operated airline. Private industry routinely takes technologies pioneered by the government and turns them into cheap, reliable and robust industries. This has happened in aviation, air mail, computers, and the Internet.

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic.

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Incentive prizes work.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

Making things open-source brings the cost down.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

When I think about creating abundance, it's not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility. It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant.

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in the environment that might harm us. So given a dozen news stories, we will preferentially look at the negative news.

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