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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

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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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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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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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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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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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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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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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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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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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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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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
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