Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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For people who want to be proactive about their health, there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to have children, I think you have a responsibility to know if you are carrying anything. A lot of people tend to do the testing once they are pregnant.
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One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.
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Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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Obesity is awesome from a Wall Street perspective. It's not just one disease - there are all sorts of related diseases to profit from.
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There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.
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If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.
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I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
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There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.
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People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.
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You may not know your complete family history, but the reality is everyone has something, and as you get older, you start to worry about these things more. Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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Once a week, I might stay late at work. It's sometimes very efficient to work until 7 P.M. - and then come home to kids who are clean and ready for bed. Those days are good.
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I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.
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Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.
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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
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Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
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I usually start my day when my kids wake up.
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23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.
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I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
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I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn. One of the things we try to do is educate individuals that knowing information is empowering.
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23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.
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When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
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I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction. It's a new technology, and it's new science that people are becoming familiar with. It's critical for us to do everything we can to enable the privacy level that people want.
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My divorce wasn't fun.