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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.

Vinod Khosla

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Vinod Khosla
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 28
Businessman
Businessperson
National Capital Region of Delhi
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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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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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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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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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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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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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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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Screw up often but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
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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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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
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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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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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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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How would you compete against yourself?
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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