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The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.

We're at the beginning of the digitization and automation of biotech.

The potential for synthetic biology and biotechnology is vast; we all have an opportunity to create the future together.

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous - to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.