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" The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility. "

Steve Jurvetson

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" In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe. "

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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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" When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy. "

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

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" Personally, I do not look at IPOs for an exit. "

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" 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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" If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption. "

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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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" 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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" If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name. "

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" Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them. "

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" If you ask any VC what it takes to be successful, you'll get a description that sounds a lot like himself. There's a preference for self-similar individuals. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Elon Musk is a remarkable individual. "

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" I love photography. I love rockets. "

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" When you lower the cost of access to space, a boom of innovation follows, just as low-cost fiber optics paved the way for the Internet and the cloud services that followed. "

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

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" We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs. "

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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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" Steve Jobs was my hero. "

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" Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality. "

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

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

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