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" If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code. "

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" My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body. "

" Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy. "

" Even with seemingly simple things like eye color, you can't tell from my genetic code whether I have blue eyes or not. So it's naive to think that complex human behaviors, like risk-seeking, are driven by changes in one or two genes. "

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

" People equate patents with secrecy, that secrecy is what patents were designed to overcome. That's why the formula for Coca-Cola was never patented. They kept it as a trade secret, and they've outlasted patent laws by 80 years or more. "

" The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient. "

" 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. "

" Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. "

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

" I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment. "

" Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them. "

" When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design. "

" Cells will die in minutes to days if they lack their genetic information system. They will not evolve, they will not replicate, and they will not live. "

" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

" When you do cross-breeding of plants, you're doing this blind experiment where you're just mixing DNA of different types of cells and just seeing what comes out of it. "

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

" Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass. "

" 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. "

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

" If there is a race, it is one to bring the benefits of genomes to human therapeutics. We all want to get there. We all want people to have much more meaningful and productive lives as they age. "

" I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority. "

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

" 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. "

" People want to protect the territory that they have, and they're very threatened by change. That's not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion. "

" 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. "

" You can't have life without the genetic code. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Accuracy in the genetic field will be essential. Errors in testing could be disastrous. "