Anne Wojcicki Quotes

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Anne Wojcicki

Profession : Scientist

Birth : July 28, 1973

I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.

Anne Wojcicki

In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.

Anne Wojcicki

The challenge in a startup is you hit a lot of turbulence, and you want people who understand that it's just turbulence and not a crisis.

Anne Wojcicki

When you try new things, you will make mistakes. That's OK.

Anne Wojcicki

Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.

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Big data is going to make us all healthier.

Anne Wojcicki

There's going to be space travel at some point.

Anne Wojcicki

I want the world's data accessible.

Anne Wojcicki

Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'

Anne Wojcicki

If I know I'm at genetically high risk of Alzheimer's, maybe I don't plan to retire at 80, and maybe I'm more proactive about where I'm going to live and who's going to take care of me.

Anne Wojcicki

Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

Anne Wojcicki

I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.

Anne Wojcicki

Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.

Anne Wojcicki

You can get so much value just from being genotyped.

Anne Wojcicki

The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.

Anne Wojcicki

People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.

Anne Wojcicki

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

Anne Wojcicki

My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.

Anne Wojcicki

People are used to dealing with risk.

Anne Wojcicki

You are not just about death and disease.

Anne Wojcicki