Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

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

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

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

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

I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

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.

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

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.

The world is hung up on food-based biofuels. Not only are they the wrong thing, they're the uneconomic thing.

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.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

I don’t need another ‘adversity builds character’ speech, Darren. That man is a chauvinistic pig. Where’s your adversity?”Darren raised a brow. “I’m looking at it.

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

I don't have so many friends I can afford to drop one just because he tried to kill me.

It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.