I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

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

With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases.

Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.