I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.