Life is a DNA software system.

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness.

Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development.

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development you can think of, children who are born to unmarried women fare worse than the children of divorce and far worse than children raised in intact families.

For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world - for whites, anyway.

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.

If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.

I hate reading reviews.

When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.