I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.

I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

Without imagination nothing is dangerous.

Everyone else is waiting for eternity and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight?'

Yeah, I guess I'm economical. Not because I try, but because I'm really not that interested in shoes.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?

I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me.

Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

Widow. The word consumes itself.