126 Quotes by Vinod Khosla

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.

Future is not extrapolation of past.

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.

Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors.

Not thinking it’s possible is a failure of imagination.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I’d go to math school not med school.

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.

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.

One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn’t know to ask.