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

" The closer you are to technology, the more you trust it. "

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" Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're doing. They tend to be 26 years old and highflying. They often have a very childlike mind, with some naivete. "

" We only invest in businesses that reduce labor. "

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

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

" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

" Without disruptions, startups can't survive. "

" It is quite moving to hold a piece of Mars in your hands and to reflect on its incredible interplanetary journey, and the science that gives confidence as to the origin of this unusual rock. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Venture capital is a dynamic and people-driven business. "

" While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction. "

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" You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out. "

" 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? "

" There are many good ideas out there that never get an audience. "

" If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low. "

" My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible. "

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

" The bad news is that most traditional VCs have a youth bias that they will state very overtly. You always wonder if that's a self-fulfilling prophecy or if it's something about the nature of those businesses. "

" Firms that claim domain focus are late movers. "

" IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. "

" 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. "

" SpaceX lowered the cost of going into space by 10x. "

" The economies of the future are information. "