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" You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA. "

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" 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. "

" Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing. "

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

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

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

" Ethanol's not an ideal fuel. "

" The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics. "

" My early years were hardly a model of focus, discipline, and direction. No one who met me as a teenager could have imagined my going into research and making important discoveries. No one could have predicted the arc of my career. "

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

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

" Each part of our genome is unique. We would not be alive if there was not a single mathematical solution for our chromosomes. We would just be scrambled goo. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The interpretation of medicine today is 'do your clinical values fall within a normal range?' Everything in the globe right now is in the law of averages, which mean absolutely nothing to individuals. "

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

" It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows? "

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

" You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "