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" A big part of green tech will be organisms that eat waste. "

" As a geek, I take umbrage at the notion that chips are not sexy. But yes, robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me. "

" Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club. "

" Because of the rate of technology change, forecast horizons are shrinking. "

" Before SpaceX, no space company was worth a second meeting. "

" Being slick is not the right answer. "

" Beyond self-driving cars, I think all airplanes should go pilotless. Get the pilots out of there. Even better, have no cockpit at all, and turn it into a nice lounge with a bar. Why give people the illusion of control with a steering wheel? "

" Biotech 1.0 is slow, like a lab science, and Version 2.0 is more like computational sciences. "

" Building and launching rockets has been a lifelong hobby that my son and I share. We regularly travel to Nevada's Black Rock Desert to launch rockets. "

" By day, I'm a venture capitalist. On weekends, I love rockets. "

" By developing deep learning solutions that are faster, easier, and less expensive to use, Nervana is democratizing deep learning and fueling advances in medical diagnostics, image and speech recognition, genomics, agriculture, finance, and eventually across all industries. "

" By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month. "

" Charging a fee for an online service is a good way to lose 90 percent of your customers. "

" Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups. "

" Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation. "

" Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley. "

" Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other. "

" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

" Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge. "

" Eventually, all cars are going to be autonomous. "

" Every new industry has exuberance in advance of reality. The techies get carried away. There is a period of despair. Then the pendulum swings the other way, and people see the long term potential. It's like when the Internet bubble crashed. "

" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

" Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is. "

" Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process. "

" Go to the moon - that's my dream. "

" History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow. "

" Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of. "

" Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding. It showed us the power of the network effect. "

" I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world. "

" I can't invest in areas of comfort. "

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