No one will pay you to solve a non-problem.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

I believe cellulosic fuels, biofuels made from nonfood crops are the only solution that will make a difference.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.