Vinod Khosla Quotes
19 quotes from Vinod Khosla — Co-founder of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures, a major VC firm focused on deep tech, clean energy, and….
“In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.”
“Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.”
“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.”
“An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.”
“Good isn't good enough. Great is barely acceptable.”
“The belief in the boundless potential of what could be animates not just techno-optimists like myself but entrepreneurs who know that the 'possible' doesn't simply manifest—it must be brought into existence.”
“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.”
“Every 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.”
“We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.”
“Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.”
“One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.”
“People say I can be too 'in love' with my companies. But I've earned the freedom to be honest and more blunt.”
“When people take a financial investing approach to venture, you end up with much less risk, and much more pragmatic and sensible decisions, but they exclude the really large breakthrough ideas.”
“Innovation only — I can't think of very many large examples where large innovation came from somebody who was large or in the business. Experts are terrible at predicting the future; they extrapolate the past. Entrepreneurs invent the future they want.”
“No matter what you do someone will find fault and the press, usually naive, will amplify it. Stick to your principles but have clear, transparent, defensible principles.”
“If this hadn't ever started, I'd be so happy. But once you're there in principle, you can't give up principle. I'd rather do the right hard things now that I'm in than the wrong easy things.”
“He's a visionary who likes to make big bets on ideas that can really change the world. I would think he's made a larger personal bet on green tech than anybody else.”
“My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.”
