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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
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Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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