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" A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease. "

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" The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer's and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them. "

" Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. "

" In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. "

" I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species. "

" The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce. "

" The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off. "

" You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another. "

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

" Companies, cities, and potentially even individuals could have a small refinery to make their own fuel. "

" We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. "

" We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see. "

" I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. "

" A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world. "

" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "

" We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. "

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

" Genes can't possibly explain all of what makes us what we are. "

" There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. "

" San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet. "

" The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives. "

" I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. "

" Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. "

" Once we all have our genomes, some of these extremely rare diseases are going to be totally predictable. "

" We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure. "

" The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. "

" I've had a very unusual background in science - not the usual route of planning on being a scientist from age 3. I think my story shows that success is more about personal motivation and determination than it is about where you were born or what your economic status was. "

" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "

" Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them. "

" When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. "

" I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D. "