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“And I would say all of the investments I've made have founders of this character that I could have a deep discussion with them in the computer science as well as the biology.”

“Having those two skill sets makes you, like, There's, you will have no problem getting started in the industry just because there are very few people who have both vocabularies and the kind of opportunities in it are so big, so I, like, I don't think you can m…”

“So we're living at this incredible point in time where biology is going to look a lot like information technology, and that it's going to be able to tackle and transform and perhaps even disrupt multiple industries.”

“As we move beyond software, we're at this point where we're seeing this incredible convergence between biology, computer science, and engineering. And it's this convergence that's going to give us broad new superpowers to understand and manipulate biology. Ess…”

“I think what we expect to see is the shift from many areas that used to be areas of science risk through engineering mechanisms and machine learning now become really engineering problems. With that in mind, we can finally understand and tackle the technical d…”

“And if you think about it, biology is all about technical debt. Biology is trying to get that MVP out. You're trying to, like, survive the T-Rex coming after you. You know, you're not gonna be able to make things perfect.”

“I think you might be seeing where I'm going with this, is that that's a lot like what we have to do in biology. You know, we have to get into the code which is a mess and understand it, and just understanding the code of biology is something extremely difficul…”

“And when you talk to a biologist, and I think what we're starting to realize is that there's a fundamental conclusion that comes from this, is that biology is so complicated that it's probably beyond what the human being can understand.”

“Opportunities where we now finally can engineer biology the way we engineer other areas.”

“If you break it up into little bits, any little bit isn't so bad. And can be engineered. And you sort of do it step by step by step by step. And I think that's, for me, the inspiration for how to take some big crazy thing like going to the moon, that if you di…”

“When you have biology as a design medium, it's about making things possible that you didn't even know were possible.”

“I think mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, computer science, all these disciplines are pushing into biology, and so instead of steel, it's bone, or it's muscle, but the same principles actually carry over really nicely, and if yo…”

“I think what we're going to start to see is the literal engineering of biological circuits inside cells. The ability to design circuits, much like we design electronic circuits. And the reason why this is important is that there's only so much you can do by ha…”

“It's really just one subset of what we think is the broader theme here, which is the shift away from biology being primarily an empirical or an experimental science to becoming more of an engineered discipline.”

“What we're really seeing emerging are new founders, Founders that also live in both of these worlds. Founders that have deep experience in the biology and deep experience in computer science, and actually, for these types of companies, I think that's going to …”

“Biology is no longer an industry in and of itself. It's something that's going to touch every single industry, and we're already seeing applications in energy, in textiles, in food, of course in health, and in data storage.”

“But I think mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, computer science, all these disciplines are pushing into biology. And so instead of steel, it's bone or it's muscle. But the same principles actually carry over really nicely.”

“We're still not in the large, large data regime where, you know, blind architectures that don't exploit structure of the problem can just work out of the box. So you really have to understand your problem domain and figure out how to exploit the structure that…”

“You just see breakthroughs in biology and chemistry, in astrophysics. Coming out of various forms of machine learning. So all of a sudden it becomes this tool that is applicable to a whole range of things and is changing those fields.”

“I think in many ways this century is going to be the century of biology, and really to put point on it, I think it's going to be the century of synthetic biology”

“Secondly, often biology has very small data sets and that's a real challenge and a differentiator from other areas in AI.”

“Everyone talks about rocket science being the hard problem about outer space, but biology is the really hard thing about outer space.”

“Biology is too complex to be understood by a human brain at a holistic or intuitive level for even a single cell.”

“If there is one technology on this planet that can scale better than anything else we know of, it's biology.”

“I'm gonna bet that we will map biology in this way.”

“In biology, as you know, like, the best model you can build has, like, a figure of merit of accuracy, like.6, if it's .9, anything that looks great, there's something wrong.”

“The data and the technological needs of serving biology are very, very different. You have an incredibly complex multidimensional data model that's happening while the instrumentation lab is now, you know, vastly generating more, more data than ever, ever befo…”

“It still seems like there could be a lot more effort in this space around building tools, and it's kind of this crazy thing that we're, you know, here in, you know, twenty-twenty-five, and there's not the kind of periodic table of elements equivalent for biolo…”

“Every time I think about where the biggest breakthroughs and successes in biology came from, it was always served from some type of technology or process or technique and rarely from like discovering a new target.”

“It definitely seems plausible, but there's a lot of other concerns there where it needs to It needs to be able to, like, actually do experiments, and get data, and interact with the real world for a lot of these in a way that does not need to happen at all for…”

“AI is going to mean the century of biology because finally all of this work that was spread across all these different journal papers can be synthesized and understood, right?”