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Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

I have more than 100 honorary Ph.D.s.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

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

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.