I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

It is a rare goal that has only one path.

There's something else that makes a woman interesting, something beyond being young or being old. And I'm going to find out what that something else is before I die, I hope.

Bobby Fischer is the greatest Chess genius of all time!

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

Insight, untested and unsupported, is an uncertain guarantee of the truth.

Success doesn't just happen. It starts for those who take action.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

I love any kind of candy.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.