Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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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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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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Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.
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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 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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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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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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All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
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I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
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A lot of genetic testing hasn't been integrated into healthcare because it has been expensive. I want to make people realise that they have the ability to be in charge of their own health.
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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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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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Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
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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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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.
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In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.
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Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.
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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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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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It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.
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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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My divorce wasn't fun.
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I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
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I tried to minimize exposure to technology before two. After that, I've taught the kids to use devices in moderation. It's important for them to learn how to control their behaviour themselves. Simply restricting access makes them want it more.