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" 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. "

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" People are comprised of sets of DNA from each parent. If you looked at just the DNA from your father, it wouldn't tell you who you really are. "

Craig Venter

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" The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. "

" 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. "

" The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies. "

" Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code. "

" We can create new ways to create clean water. "

" 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. "

" Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet. "

" The Anthropocentic Age - the first age in which humankind is the dominant species on the planet - cuts both ways: it is up to us to destroy or save the planet. We certainly have the ability. "

" There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives. "

" I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level. "

" 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. "

Craig Venter

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You

" 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. "

" The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand. "

" There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies. "

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

" The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time. "

" There's a constant debate over nature or nurture - they're inseparable. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

" 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. "

" 'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue. "

" 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. "

" The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you. "

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

" For each gene in your genome, you quite often get a different version of that gene from your father and a different version from your mother. We need to study these relationships across a very large number of people. "

" There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature. "