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The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

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Craig Venter Life Experience People

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.

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Craig Venter Home Age Surfing

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

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Craig Venter Life I Am Environment

The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

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Craig Venter Life Day Alien

'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.

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Craig Venter Service World Financial

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.

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Craig Venter Future Design Why

Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.

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Craig Venter People Earth Animals

Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

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Craig Venter Women Changes Problem

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

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Craig Venter Information Privacy

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

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Craig Venter Information People Hands

I'm hoping that these next 20 years will show what we did 20 years ago in sequencing the first human genome, was the beginning of the health revolution that will have more positive impact in people's lives than any other health event in history.

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Craig Venter History Health Beginning

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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Craig Venter Fight Environment

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

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Craig Venter Age Drawing Dawn

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.

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Craig Venter Start Information Digital

When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.

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Craig Venter Future Think You

Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

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Craig Venter Nature Better Know

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it.

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Craig Venter Future I Am Want

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.

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Craig Venter Life Future Light

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

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Craig Venter Death Child Professional

Life is a DNA software system.

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Craig Venter Life Is A Software System

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

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Craig Venter Politics Environment

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

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Craig Venter Food Future Think
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