Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.

I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago.

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

The internet is just a passing fad.