Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

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

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.