In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

Solutions to all biological problems are greatly advanced by the sequencing work and the new tools that are created.

To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.

There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.