The question

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

Originally asked

Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Bill Nye

Science communicator and television presenter

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
We just can't keep putting all this CO2 into the atmosphere, and we're so dependent on fossil fuels. We have five times more renewable energy in wind in North Dakota than we use in the United States. North Dakota could be the Saudi Arabia of wind!

Energy.gov, Energy.gov, 10 June 2010 source ↗

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I think it is an approach that is very ill suited to this particular problem. This whole issue of presenting it as a moral issue to my mind that actually is a capitulation to a kind of neo-liberal ideology which tries to reduce all collective action to cases of individual choices.
Recorded Nitin Sethi, Business Standard, 20 July 2016 source ↗
Alan Dale New Zealand actor
Their clothes' lines. The oil crisis could be solved if people didn't use dryers.
Recorded Jennifer Clark, The 5-minute Interview, The Independent, 16 April 2008 source ↗
Mark Cuban Entrepreneur and investor; owner of the Dallas Mavericks
I was never a big risk taker. When I started my first businesses, I really had nothing to lose. I was sleeping on the floor. I had five roommates in a three-bedroom apartment. My car was a junker. I had absolutely nothing to lose when I started MicroSolutions, so it really was never a risk.
Recorded Kiplinger, Kiplinger Q&A, 1 November 2013 source ↗
Alan Titchmarsh Gardener and broadcaster
Specialisation leads to extinction. We are learning more and more but about less and less, and one day we will know everything about nothing. There is nothing wrong with being a populist. It does not have to mean dumbing down, as people think.
Recorded Vanessa Thorpe, This much I know, The Observer, 22 June 2013 source ↗

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