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We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

You know, Mike Milken, the money that he has raised for cancer research has been remarkable.

I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

Even if we never cure a single disease, the Human Genome Project and other ventures will have been worth it.

I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.

Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.

We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.