Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.