Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.

It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.

It's not fear that keeps me up. I mean, every generation has thought, this is the worst generation; the world's going to hell in a hand basket. The reality is, people are living longer, and they're living better.

One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

When I grew up, I simply didn't have mentors that said, "Science is important. Science helps you build a country. Science makes a country powerful." And that's such a simple thought, but when you think about what's powered Taiwan and Korea and Silicon Valley and Cambridge.