Yan

“We are technocrats. We make decisions like engineers. Which doesn't always line up with what people imagine they want.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

“An arcane microbial defense, devised by microbes, discovered by yogurt engineers, and reprogrammed by RNA biologists, has created a trapdoor to the transformative technology that geneticists had sought so longingly for decades: a method to achieve directed, efficient, and sequence-specific modification of the human genome.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“The way the creative process works is that you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Bill by bill, and letter by letter, his scientific imagination was slowly choked by administrative work.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History