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" It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are. "

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" Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology. "

Craig Venter

Life

Light

Speed

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

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

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Craig Venter

Oil

Fashion

" Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution. "

" 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. "

" I was a horrible student. I really hated school. "

" If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding. "

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

" We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities. "

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

" Mathematicians have been hiding and writing messages in the genetic code for a long time, but it's clear they were mathematicians and not biologists because, if you write long messages with the code that the mathematicians developed, it would more than likely lead to new proteins being synthesized with unknown functions. "

" Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context. "

" 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. "

" Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it. "

" My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped. "

Craig Venter

I Am

Than

" My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. "

" I see, in the future, bioengineered almost everything you can imagine that we use. "

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

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

" We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations. "

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

" 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. "

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