It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here. John Doerr Read Quote
Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they’re going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that’s better living through bugs. John Doerr Read Quote
It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks. John Doerr Read Quote
People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. John Doerr Read Quote
Green technologies – going green – is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century. John Doerr Read Quote
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that’s clearly a vanity phenomenon. John Doerr Read Quote
They’ve found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other images, drawings, and then gain access to some of the world’s great expressions and images and make them real, make them tangible. John Doerr Read Quote
There’s this large trend – I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 – which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity. John Doerr Read Quote
