The 66+ Vinod Khosla Quotes

I Believe Cellulosic Fuels, Biofuels Made From Nonfood Crops Are The Only Solution That Will Make A Difference.

The World Is Hung Up On Food-based Biofuels. Not Only Are They The Wrong Thing, They're The Uneconomic Thing.

Setting An Aggressive Enough Carbon-reduction Goal Will Result In An Appropriate Price For Carbon And Will Help Many A Renewable Technology. Consumer Education Will Help. Most Importantly, Though, Will Be The Continually Declining Cost Trajectory Of The Real Breakthrough In Clean-technology Costs Driven By Research And Innovation. In The End, Private Capital Is The Real Barometer Of Change.

You Need A Degree Of Foolishness To Cause Disruptive Change In Healthcare. Dare To Dream.

There Are Parts Of The Country In America, In The Midwest, Where Wind Is A Big Resource, And We Should Absolutely Use It. But To Try And Apply It Nationally Doesn't Make Sense. There Are Technologies That Will Work That Are Appropriate To Certain Regions.

Certain Food-based Biofuels Like Biodiesel Have Always Been A Bad Idea. Others Like Corn Ethanol Have Served A Useful Purpose And Essentially Are Obsoleting Themselves.

Climate Deniers Are Clearly The Fringe Group And Need To See A Proctologist To Find Their Heads.

Now It Will Take A Long Time To Scale Biofuels, But I'm The Only One In The World Forecasting Oil Dropping In Price To $35 A Barrel By 2030. I'll Put It On The Record: Oil Will Not Be Able To Compete With Cellulosic Biofuels. If You Do It From Food, The Food Will Get So Expensive You Can't Make Fuel Out Of It.

Is It 10 Years, 20, 50 Before We Reach That Tipping Point Where Climate Change Becomes Irreversible? Nobody Can Know. There's Clearly A Probability Distribution. We Need To Ensure This Planet, And We Need To Do It Quickly.

No One Will Pay You To Solve A Non-problem.

I'm A Fiscal Hawk. I Vote Against All Taxes, But I Do Believe The Environment, And Climate Change, Is A Bigger Issue Than Fiscal Deficits Are As A Risk To The Nation.

I Generally Disagree With Most Of The Very High Margin Opportunities. Why? Because It's A Business Strategy Tradeoff: The Lower The Margin You Take, The Faster You Grow.