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

— Craig Venter

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

— Craig Venter

'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 database. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.

— Craig Venter

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralized factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

— Craig Venter

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

— Craig Venter

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

— Craig Venter

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.

— Craig Venter

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

— Craig Venter

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.

— Craig Venter

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.

— Craig Venter