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

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

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

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.