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" Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley. "

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

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

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

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" In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of. "

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" 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. "

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" 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? "

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" I love what I do. I love to learn. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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