Optimizing compilers are a lot like nuclear power plants. They are both very powerful and very dangerous.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock hem up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.

CRISPR didn't come from a vacuum—it's built on decades of basic research.

"The ordinary becomes extraordinary when viewed through the right lens."

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.