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.

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.

It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.

Balls to ten minutes.

If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings.

Why does everyone keep asking me that?" Seriously, did I look like some sort of pyscho assassin? Maybe it was the pink sneakers. Or the heart earrings?