I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.