In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.
Any problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity.
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.
The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
Not thinking it’s possible is a failure of imagination.
One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn’t know to ask.
Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable – from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
In my view, it’s irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
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.
If I wanted to be a doctor today I’d go to math school not med school.
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.
How would you compete against yourself?
Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none – that’s going to change.