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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Craig Venter

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society. "

" I spent 10 years trying to find one gene. "

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

" I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry. "

" 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. "

" We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life. "

" Sailing is a big outlet for me. "

Craig Venter

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

" Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. "

" 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. "

" We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. "

" 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. "

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

" Race has no genetic or scientific basis. "

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

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