Khosla Profil Quotes

I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're fashionable, everybody loves them, the Prius is selling well, but so are Gucci bags. But they don't impact the way the world carries stuff. You know it's a fashion statement. ~ Vinod Khosla

Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

At Padovani Beach the dance hall is open every day. And in that huge rectangular box with its entire side open to the sea, the poor young people of the neighborhood dance until evening. Often I used to await there a a moment of exceptional beauty. During the day the hall is protected by sloping wooden awnings. When the sun goes down they are raised. Then the hall is filled with an odd green light born of the double shell of the sky and the sea. When one is seated far from the windows, one sees only the sky and, silhouetted against it, the faces of the dancers passing in succession. Sometimes a waltz is being played, and against the green background the black profiles whirl obstinately like those cut-out silhouettes that are attached to a phonograph's turntable. Night comes rapidly after this, and with it the lights. But I am unable to relate the thrill and secrecy that subtle instant holds for me. I recall at least a magnificent tall girl who had danced all afternoon. She was wearing a jasmine garland on her right blue dress, wet with perspiration from the small of her back to her legs. She was laughing as she danced and throwing back her head. As she passed the tables, she left behind her a mingled scent of flowers and flesh. When evening came, I could no longer see her body pressed tight to her partner, but against her body alternating spots of white jasmine and black hair, and when she would throw back her swelling breast I would hear her laugh and see her partner's profil ~ Albert Camus

We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

You have to invent the future you want. ~ Vinod Khosla

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms, ~ Vinod Khosla

Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true. ~ Vinod Khosla

Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know. ~ Vinod Khosla

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

Every big problem is a big opportunity. ~ Vinod Khosla

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

Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. ~ Vinod Khosla

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. ~ Vinod Khosla

How would you compete against yourself? ~ Vinod Khosla

The U.S. has fallen well behind Europe in recognizing climate change and the implications of climate change. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others. ~ Vinod Khosla

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world. ~ Vinod Khosla

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive. ~ Vinod Khosla

Don't kill the messenger, but I'm think you should change your dating profil to balding.
Paris to William ~ Gena Showalter

Not thinking it's possible is a failure of imagination. ~ Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline. ~ Vinod Khosla

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new. ~ Vinod Khosla

Future is not extrapolation of past ~ Vinod Khosla

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change. ~ Vinod Khosla

Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important. ~ Vinod Khosla

Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels. ~ Vinod Khosla

Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it. ~ Vinod Khosla

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? ~ Vinod Khosla

One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments. ~ Vinod Khosla

It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence. ~ Vinod Khosla

I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference. ~ Vinod Khosla

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed. ~ Vinod Khosla

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups. ~ Bill Gates

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed. ~ Vinod Khosla

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla

We like to say at Khosla Ventures, and this is one of the reasons to do what we do, we'll take technical risks that nobody else will. ~ Vinod Khosla

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. ~ Vinod Khosla