The UK is a very international country.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

AIDS we're - most of these diseases - we are down from the peak. We're down about 40 per cent from the peak and if we got the right vaccines, which are at the early stage of discovering, then the numbers would come down very dramatically. So that's why we talk about it as an emergency.

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

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.