I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
I would like to live longer, and I would like other people to live longer.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
What would it be like to live 500 years? Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator. But reasonably healthy all that time? That would be awesome!
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.
I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.
I'm the chief science officer of a foundation that works on the application of regenerative medicine to the problem of aging.
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of people.
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.
I really want to live longer. It's a goal of mine.
When you have a relationship with music, and it's that deeply a part of your life, it's so much more than a career choice for me. It's an extension of who I am.
One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
Health care has not so much slowed the ageing process as much as it has slowed the dying process.
I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.
Extending our lives, extending our creativity, opening up the mysteries of the brain. All those things that are really exciting - that's kind of the basis of 'Neon Future,' and that's why I interviewed Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey.
Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
I understand that I'm not 20 anymore, but I feel great, like in my 20s. I don't know what it is, but in our generation, people last longer.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
