Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

The day you stop caring about opinions of other, is the first day of you freedom.

Seek midday nourishment. Visit memorial acclaimed war hero Colonel Sanders.

Pounding an edge to sharpness will not make it last.

You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.