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My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

You can get so much value just from being genotyped.

All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

Physicians should be genotyped.

I really think people should live to be 100 years old pretty much disease-free. I think that's our genetic potential.

The most profound change that genetics brings about might not be scientific at all. It might be mental and even spiritual enrichment: a more expansive sense of who we humans are, existentially, and where we came from, and how we fit with other life on earth.

One can say with reasonable confidence that the likelihood of something analogous to a human evolving is really pretty high.