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John Craig Venter is an American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and businessman. He is known for being involved with the second draft sequence of the human genome and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute . He was the co-founder of Human Longevity Inc., served as its CEO until 2017, and is executive chairman of the board of directors. He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010". He is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board.

✵ 14. October 1946
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“Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement.”

Craig Venter

A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, pp. 165–166 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA165
Context: Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.

“I could trace own EST brainwave to a flight back from a trip to Japan. But, of course, great ideas are often simultaneously conceived by several people who have responded in a similar way to the climate of thinking, and it can be hard to pin down when and precisely how a flash of inspiration is born. Kaplan had taught me that good ideas are a dime of dozen for a smart person, and the only thing that distinguishes good from great is in how an idea is executed—how it becomes reality. Scientific history is littered with stories of one person having an idea but not following through on it only to see another have a similar inspiration and then prove it to be valid.”

Craig Venter

A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, p. 129 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA129

“Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.”

Craig Venter

"The Genius of Charles Darwin: The Uncut Interviews - Richard Dawkins" (36:30) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E25jgPgmzk#t=36m30s

“I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.”

Craig Venter

San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/10/DD861808G2.DTL

“At the hearing I not only described the EST method and the rapid rate of human gene discovery but also voiced by concerns about NIH's patent efforts, a subject I was glad to get out in the open. The room went quiet as many were startled by this discovery and then Watson suddenly shouted that it was "sheer lunacy" to file such patents, adding that "virtually any monkey" could use the EST method and that he was "horrified." As Cook-Deegan, a Duke University genome discussant, described the event, "Watson was lying in wait and took aim with heavy artillery." Cook-Deegan, who was Watson's assistant at the time, told me later that Watson had practiced the lines for a week prior to the hearing.”

Craig Venter

A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, p. 135 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA135

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