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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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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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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
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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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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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If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.
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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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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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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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