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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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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
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National Capital Region of Delhi
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
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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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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
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