As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.