I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very interested in that.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known.

Success is a lousy teacher. It makes you think you know what you're doing.

I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'