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

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.

All your solutions are in people, and you can only be free when you love them

When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.

It's all just a bit of fun ...

Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example

Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.