Quotes by Craig Venter

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Life is a DNA software system.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

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