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for supporting me in so many other tangible and intangible ways.
    Thank you to my agent, Heather Schroder, for her competence, unflinching support, and tough love. Thanks also to Nicole Tourtelot for able assistance.
    I am terribly grateful to my first editor, Elisabeth Dyssegaard, and to her successor, Bill Strachan, at HarperCollins. Thanks also to the aptly named Kate Whitenight (though I would have spelled it with a k).
    My colleague and friend, Bob Cook-Deegan, has been an invaluable source of advice, support, insight, and wisdom. I owe him much.
    To Duncan Murrell, who has taught me about writing, about editing, and about humanity: thanks, D.
    Everyone attached to the Personal Genome Project was extremely helpful and I owe them more than they’ll ever know, especially Jason Bobe, Jeantine Lunshof, Dan Vorhaus, Joe Thakuria, Margret Hoehe, Robert Green, Marilyn Ness, and Dana Waring Bateman. I am extremely grateful to Terry Bard, Abraham Rosenbaum, Sasha Wait Zaranek, Kevin McCarthy, and Andrea Loehr. Other Church lab members to whom I owe thanks: Madeleine Ball, Tom Clegg, Jin Billy Li, Jay Lee, John Aach, Mike Chao, Rich Terry, Mayra Mollinedo, and Mark Umbarger. And also to former Church lab members who shared a lot with me: Jay Shendure, Greg Porreca, Yuan Gao, Kun Zhang, Jun Zhu, and Xiaodi Wu. Many thanks also to Harvard’s Isaac Kohane and Alexandra Shields. Thanks also to Goodwin Procter LLP.
    And to the two most important members of Team Church—Ting Wu and Marie Wu—I say thanks for your generosity.
    Without exception, the PGP-10 were both forthcoming and articulate and I feel fortunate to have gotten to hang around with them: John Halamka, Esther Dyson, Kirk Maxey, Steven Pinker, James Sherley, Rosalynn Gill, Keith Batchelder, and Stan Lapidus.
    Stan also spoke to me at length about Helicos BioSciences, as did many other past and present employees in his company. Steve Lombardi always made time for me and for that I thank him profusely. Thanks also to Tim Harris for his time and perspective. Bill Efcavitch, John Boyce, Patrice Milos, and Sepehr Kiani were both gracious and helpful.
    Walter Gilbert shared his intimate knowledge of science, art, and George Church. He is also responsible for the title of this book. Thank you, Dr. Gilbert! And thanks to Deb Munroe.
    I owe many thanks to Francis Collins and to the true locus of power at NIH, Kathy Hudson. At NHGRI, I thank Eric Green, Les Biesecker, and Jeff Schloss. Thanks also to Sharon Terry for her thoughts and for her heroic work with the Genetic Alliance.
    In Boston, a huge thank-you goes to Kay Aull. Thanks to George Annas and Winnie Roche. Thanks very much to Jorge Conde and Julie Yoo at Knome. Thanks also to Heidi Rehm at the Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine and to Jamie Heywood and PatientsLikeMe.
    I appreciate all of the time and effort expended on my behalf by Mike Cariaso at SNPedia and the time spent with his partner in crime, Greg Lennon.
    Thank you to everyone in the Bay Area who made time and space for me. Thank you to the Rienhoff-Hane family for its deep well of generosity: Hugh, Lisa, Colston, Mac, and Beatrice. Thank you to Hank Greely for his time and insight. Heartfelt thanks to Dietrich Stephan, Sean George, Elissa Levin, Michael Nierenberg, Eran Halperin, Michelle Cargill, Steve Moore, Vance Vanier, and Mari Baker. I am more than grateful to Ryan Phelan, Lisa Lee, Lisa Kessler, Anne Wojcicki, Joanna Mountain, Matt Crenson, Andro Hsu, and Darren Platt. Thanks also to Mildred Cho and Sandra Soo-Jin Lee. Thanks for dinner and more, Steve Brenner. Thank you to Un Kwon-Casado, Eli Casdin, and, in Boston, John Sullivan. Thanks also to Jeff Gulcher and Kari Stefansson. Special thanks to Linda Avey, Jenny Reardon, and Barbara Prainsack.
    To my colleagues at Duke, I am deeply grateful. These people include Kevin Shianna and Dongliang Ge, both of whom were indispensable. I am indebted to Kendall Morgan, Kristen Linney,