I’m at a speech by J. Craig Venter. My heart is filled with envy, because he’s so damn smart. How smart? Well, he’s making scientific history by sailing the world (in his tax deductible yacht). He takes environmental samples (from the Sargasso sea, for example) and sequences all the DNA he finds. It’s changing our understanding of genomic biology. Now he’s giving a keynote using his travel pictures as slides. He’s very quotable:
“Back at the beginning, we had this idea that we had if we couldn’t make a single large machine to sequence the entire genome, we had failed.”
“Once we did drosophila, the rest was really just cranking through it.”
Here’s one of me, with two Apple guys, in front of the India Gate.
