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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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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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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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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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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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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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Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
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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'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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The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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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 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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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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Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
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