Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they’ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down.

Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that.

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

The pace of progress in biology creates a foundation that naturally gets picked up by the biotech and pharmaceutical industry to solve rich-world diseases. This is attractive science. It's science that people want to work on.