Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain passes. The Internet is another form of communication and commerce. And society organizes around the channels.

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In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

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By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

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In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

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Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.

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Success comes to those that dare to dream dreams and are foolish enough to try and make them come true.

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It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

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The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.

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Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

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You have to invent the future you want.

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An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.

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We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

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I don’t mind the low probability of success, but it better be impactful if we do succeed.

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Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

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Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.

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Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

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Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

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Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

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Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

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