In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

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.

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

We grow small trying to be great.

I've never done any Hallmark movies. I don't know why.

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.

Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.