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I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.

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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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Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
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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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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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Maybe some percentage that’s substantially larger than 95 percent of VCs add zero value. I would bet that 70-80 percent add negative value to a startup in their advising.
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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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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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Future is not extrapolation of past
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No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.
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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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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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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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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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How would you compete against yourself?
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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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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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