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" Lots of deals happen in situations that aren't 'pure work.' "

Steve Jurvetson

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" Statistical physics or Newtonian physics gives way to quantum physics. Very unusual properties of matter emerge at that scale, and you can think about building products in a very different way. You can think about interfacing to biology in a very different way. "

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" 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. "

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" Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth. "

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" 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. "

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" I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts. "

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" One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors? "

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" I've actually come to respect the most irritatingly challenging people I've worked with as really valuable in improving group decision-making and what to do and what to invest in. "

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" The deep learning techniques, while relatively easy to learn, are quite foreign to traditional engineering modalities. It takes a different mindset and a relaxation of the presumption of control. The practitioners are like magi, sequestered from the rest of a typical engineering process. "

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

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" One tech-related concern with religion is that it appears to be a positive feedback loop to the accelerating rich-poor gap, as the disenfranchised opt out of modernity. "

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" The short version is I'm just a total Apple fanboy. I started programming Apples in seventh grade. "

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" The commercial space industry is enormous and ripe for disruption. "

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" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

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" The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science. "

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" Technology business increasingly becomes difficult to predict because technology itself is accelerating in change, and human nature and markets are more stagnant and static. But the dynamic engine of technological innovation continues unabated. "

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

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" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

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" There is no correlation between a weak IPO market and an impact on early-stage VCs. "

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" 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. "

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