Vinod Khosla Quotes

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

You always need to be on the lookout for the next kind of great technology.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll learn that one or more of these seemingly promising technologies were dead ends. And that's the nature of innovation, and that's why we should spread our bets; we should not put our eggs in any one basket. Some of these will be grand successes, some of them will be average, and some of them will be abject failures.

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.

The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

One of the things you learn operating in the technology industry is disruptions are occurring every day.

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.