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.

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.

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

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.

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

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.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

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.

You have to invent the future you want.

...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

Floor time is valuable. Our leadership isn't going to bring something up that's going to take up floor time and not be successful.

I was a sad kid.

I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington: Today it is 1 in 4.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.