Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.