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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.
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I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.
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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
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Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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You have to invent the future you want.
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.
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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.
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I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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