The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

by Walter Isaacson

The solution was too beautiful not to be true.

This is exactly how I feel when the right software architecture makes itself known. I call it the “elegant solution” and get butterflies just thinking about it!

letting data dance with theory,

What a beautiful analogy!

“Evolution has been working toward optimizing the human genome for 3.85 billion years,” says NIH director Francis Collins, who is not an atheist. “Do we really think that some small group of human genome tinkerers could do better without all sorts of unintended consequences?”15

This sums up my personal thoughts on the topic. It’s an incredible act of hubris to believe that a handful of humans with imperfect knowledge can outwit evolution.