Everybody has to learn for the first time.

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

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

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.

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.