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

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.

I find golf very relaxing. It's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.

The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants.