When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

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

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.