I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.

Every important machine's got to have a big red button.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

I am a loyal American, and I love my country.

It is more important to eat some carbohydrates at breakfast, because the brain needs fuel right away, and carbohydrate is the best source.

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.

I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

Always desire to learn something useful

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing