Vinod Khosla Quotes
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.
Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.
I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.
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.
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.
One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
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.
I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.
Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.
The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change.
The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.
There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.
You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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.
I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.
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.
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.
Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.
The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.
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.
I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.
