The Future  

The future will not be like the past. The future will be built by those who will take risks and action to invent the world they want.

A 90-percent probability of failure means a 10-percent chance of changing the world, if the goal is ambitious enough. We may have lost resources in those failed efforts, and naive journalists may have poked fun at them, but without the attempts, we would not eventually have developed the many innovations that revolutionize how we live today – including the personal computer, email, the Internet, the mobile phone, the tablet or any of the endless applications built on these technologies.

VINOD KHOSLA, Khosla Ventures

 
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