By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

What I like doing best is Nothing.

I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

Diets are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.