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28 quotes by Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla (Gurmukhi: ਵ ਨ ਦ ਖ ਸਲ ; born 28 January 1955) is an American businessman listed by Forbes magazine as a billionaire. Khosla made his early fortune as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, a company which created the Java programming language and Network File System (NFS) after his departure as founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s.
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like... →

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Is it 10 years, 20, 50 before we reach that tipping point where climate change becomes irreversible? Nobody can know. There's clearly a... →

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

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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... →

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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... →

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I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the... →

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If everyone played it safe, we wouldn't get anywhere.

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I don't believe - till something radical changes that we are not on track to do - that hybrids are material to climate change. They're... →

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Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is... →

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Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that... →

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The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil... →

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Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are... →

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I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that... →

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