Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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I believe that we all have freedom to shape our own life and the world around us.
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There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?
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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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23andme is very independent and committed to focusing on transparency.
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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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I think that for people who are trying to make a difference, you have to start the company being naive. You wouldn't do it if you understood all the work. I work a lot. I wish it was easier.
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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 life is pretty awesome.
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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 there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.
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Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
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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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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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Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
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We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.
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Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.
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It's up to all of us, the consumers, to take charge of our health. It's almost like voting. It's your responsibility.
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One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.
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There's a beauty in being unrealistic.
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Fashion was never my forte.
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There's nothing worse than walking into a hospital and seeing people sick and miserable and having a horrible treatment.
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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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If health care is a $2.7 trillion industry, and a huge percentage is paid by the government, then you have to be involved in politics to make a difference.
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We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.