Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.
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I think we're just scratching the surface. One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.
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Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
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There's not enough competition and innovation in healthcare.
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My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
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I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.
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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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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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One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
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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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Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
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I guess I'm just fiercely independent.
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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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There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.
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I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
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Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
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We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
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Our understanding of how DNA informs our health and development is advancing at an incredible pace.
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Why should I need a prescription to spit into a vial and get my DNA read? Why can't I get my own blood drawn without a doctor's permission? It's my blood.
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I have deep respect for Rep. Jackie Speier and all that she has done to open doors for women everywhere.
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Big data is going to make us all healthier.
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It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.
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My divorce wasn't fun.
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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.