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

“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.”

“'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 t...”

“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.”

“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.”

“Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance ...”

“Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.”

“Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.”

“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”

“The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your ...”

“I just became one with my browser software.”

“Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.”

“The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.”

“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can esta...”

“I have faith in the judicial system.”