“ Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ 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. ”

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

“ Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. ”

“ 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. ”

“ '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. ”

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

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