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We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

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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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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a probability distribution. We need to ensure this planet, and we need to do it quickly.
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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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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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In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
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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'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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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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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.
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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
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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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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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