Vinod Khosla Quotes
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As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.
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The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.
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Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
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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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Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
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Every big problem is a big opportunity.
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Setting an aggressive enough carbon-reduction goal will result in an appropriate price for carbon and will help many a renewable technology. Consumer education will help. Most importantly, though, will be the continually declining cost trajectory of the real breakthrough in clean-technology costs driven by research and innovation. In the end, private capital is the real barometer of change.
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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.
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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.
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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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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.
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Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors
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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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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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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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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.
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You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.
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I don’t mind failing, but if I succeed it better be worth succeeding for.
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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.
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Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination.
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I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.
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If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.