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" I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me. "

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" There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after. "

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

" I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care. "

" Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion. "

" Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. "

" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

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

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

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

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "

" Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one. "

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

" If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it. "

" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "

" I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes. "

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

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

" I am not sure our brains and our psychologies are ready for immortality. "

" Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. "

" Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years. "

" I wrote an editorial piece in 'Science' about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. "

" In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate. "

" We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all. "

" We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before. "

" I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. It's one of the key things I've been able to do by commingling science with sailing and my love of the sea. Also, I have several motorcycles, and I like to go on motorcycle trips. "

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

" The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome. "

" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "