Top 25 Steve Jurvetson Quotes
#1. I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
Karen Elson
#2. Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
Steve Jurvetson
#3. It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.
Steve Jurvetson
#5. Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.
Steve Jurvetson
#6. There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investors. It's pretty starkly polarized to Silicon Valley.
Steve Jurvetson
#7. In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.
David Steinberg
#8. When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.
Steve Jurvetson
#9. The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
Steve Jurvetson
#10. History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.
Steve Jurvetson
#11. In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen . . . "The
John Le Carre
#12. I'd stay away from investments in a variety of sectors that are capital intensive. Anyone who says we need $100 million before we know if what we're doing makes sense and the customers want it - that's not going to work.
Steve Jurvetson
#13. Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.
Steve Jurvetson
#15. Stripes on their backs. The twentieth century
Rick Bragg
#16. While, in general, life satisfaction goes up with wealth, beyond the safety net more and more wealth brings very radically diminishing returns on life satisfaction.
Steve Jurvetson
#17. When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.
Steve Jurvetson
#18. The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.
Steve Jurvetson
#19. Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.
Gary Zukav
#20. I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.
Mark Skousen
#21. IT is now reaching out to fuels and chemicals, energy and clean tech, rockets, all kinds of bizarre industries that formerly didn't face much competition.
Steve Jurvetson
#22. Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
Anatoly Chubais
#23. If you thought financial crises came and went, just count on them - another economic collapse, it's almost going to be like not news any more. But for startups this is great, because it's a perpetual driver of disruption.
Steve Jurvetson
#24. Writers are always anxious, always on the run
from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
Edna O'Brien
#25. The truth can be made up if you know how.
Jane Wagner
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