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

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

President [George] Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.