I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
Every important machine's got to have a big red button.
I'm really focused on my research almost 100 percent. That, and my family and kids.
I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.
Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.
We do live in a time where there are fake web sites peddling mistruths out or sites that use hyperbole and don't put things in context. There's a range of ways that real journalism has been mashed up with things that aren't journalism. . . like opinion or that's sensationalistic in some ways. It is really noisy out there. You have to think of ways to cut though the noise.
Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
I love waking up every single day and going to fencing practice in the morning and just working hard and setting those big goals one after another, and achieving them, and wanting to do it again and again and again. There's no reason for me to stop.
You can use your story, or your story can use you.