My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.

As I look forward, I'm very optimistic about the things I see ahead.

How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.