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" 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. "

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" I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life. "

" 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. "

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

" The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there. "

" 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. "

" I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera. "

" Your age is your No. 1 risk factor for almost every disease, but it's not a disease itself. "

" 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. "

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

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

" 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. "

" Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere. "

" Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. "

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

" I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity. "

" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

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

" The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. "

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

" 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. "

" Life is a DNA software system. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Knowing what your parents have gives you hints of things, but your genome is a totally unique combination of and interchange of DNA from your parents. There is no one else like you genetically. "