As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue to be fighting over an ever smaller percentage of total resources. This is not a happy thought

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.

I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answers to the questions that I was interested in-or they didn't care

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

I think in our lifetime, that level of acceptance of "well, we couldn't do any better," won't be tolerated. We're going to start to see individual therapies customized for individual patients, and it's going to change the way people get healthcare.