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In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.

To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.