17 Quotes From Anne Wojcicki

17 Quotes From Anne Wojcickie

You are not just about death and disease.

— Anne Wojcicki

Most medications don't work effectively for a lot people.

— Anne Wojcicki

It's crazy to me that in this world of electronic medical records Walmart has so much information about how we shop, but no one has that information about our health. Why can't my doctor say, 'Wow, Anne, based on your lifestyle and behavior, you're five years from being diabetic.' But I can go to Target, and they know exactly what I'm going to buy.

— Anne Wojcicki

The pharma industry is one of the few industries that comes up every year and brags about how much worse they got - like, now it costs $2 billion to make a drug, and it was a billion 5 years ago.

— Anne Wojcicki

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.

— Anne Wojcicki

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

— Anne Wojcicki

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

— Anne Wojcicki

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

— Anne Wojcicki

I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

— Anne Wojcicki

It's interesting: I think, genetically, there are people who need different things, like exercise. I need the exercise, others not so much, and I think more and more, we'll start to understand why people's bodies function in certain ways.

— Anne Wojcicki

One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

— Anne Wojcicki

When Amazon emerged, people had these debates about whether people would put their credit cards online.

— Anne Wojcicki

When I graduated from college in 1996 and the Internet was taking off, I remember this feeling that there was an open range where anything could be built.

— Anne Wojcicki

There are a lot of people in D.C. who have never been on Twitter or Facebook and don't get what's happening.

— Anne Wojcicki

As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'

— Anne Wojcicki

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.

— Anne Wojcicki

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

— Anne Wojcicki

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