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Anne Wojcicki
American
Scientist
Born:
Jul 28
,
1973
Care
Health
Me
People
Think
You
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I want the world's data accessible.
Anne Wojcicki
World
Data
Accessible
Want
Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
Anne Wojcicki
Life
My Life
Every
Saved
Says
Someone
Weeks
Writes
Couple
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.
Anne Wojcicki
Me
Care
Live
High
About
Risk
More
Take
Take Care
Retire
Genetically
Know
Alzheimer
Proactive
Going
Maybe
Where
Plan
Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
Anne Wojcicki
Health
Genetic
Protected
Employment
Health Insurance
Insurance
Information
Act
Now
Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.
Anne Wojcicki
Relationship
Direct
Consumers
Always
Subjects
Companies
The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.
Anne Wojcicki
Health
Better
Predict
Outcome
Able
Having
More
More And More
Goal
Going
Information
Really
Your
When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.
Anne Wojcicki
You
People
Focus
Lose
Other
Say
Distracted
People Say
Get
Laser
There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.
Anne Wojcicki
Life
You
Nothing
Sick
More
Raw
Than
People are used to dealing with risk.
Anne Wojcicki
People
Risk
Dealing
Used
You are not just about death and disease.
Anne Wojcicki
Death
You
About
Disease
Just
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
Crazy
You
People
Beauty
Nothing
Think
Changed
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Sacred
Generally
Part
Hypothesis
Encourage
There's a beauty in being unrealistic.
Anne Wojcicki
Beauty
Unrealistic
Being
You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.
Anne Wojcicki
You
Change
Debate
Try
New Things
System
Generating
New
Without
Things
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
People
Think
Others
Ways
More
More And More
Genetically
Like
Exercise
Understand
Different
Interesting
Much
Bodies
Certain
Who
Different Things
Function
Why
Things
Start
Need
It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.
Anne Wojcicki
You
Matter
Same Thing
Rich
Sick
Exact
How
Same
Want
Poor
Thing
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
Remember
Internet
College
Feeling
Range
Could
Open
Taking
Built
Off
Graduated
Where
Anything
As a child, I had a teacher who told me, 'Look, Anne, one person can't make a difference.'
Anne Wojcicki
Teacher
Me
Had
Anne
Look
Make
Make A Difference
Child
Person
Difference
Who
We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
Anne Wojcicki
Care
About
Having
More
Lot
Than
Disease
Treating
Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.
Anne Wojcicki
Change
People
Important
Believe
Viral
Possible
About
Most
Make
Doing
Go
Belief
It's one of the things I want people to understand about science... You don't have to be the best person in the world at it. But you can be good, and there are so many different opportunities in science.
Anne Wojcicki
Best
Good
You
Science
People
World
Opportunities
One Of The Things
About
Understand
Person
Different
Want
Many
Things
There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.
Anne Wojcicki
You
Try
Those
Prevent
Environment
Clearly
Know
Disease
Want
Your
Things
Being the first FDA-authorized direct-to-consumer genetic test out there is revolutionary.
Anne Wojcicki
First
Out
Genetic
Test
Revolutionary
Being
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.
Anne Wojcicki
Failure
Trials
People
Better
Victory
Nine
Seven
Out
Rate
Having
Instead
Failing
Major
Clinical
Discovery
Decrease
Therapy
Actually
It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.
Anne Wojcicki
Life
Technology
Important
Down
Part
Put
Also
Learn
Very
Children
Use
When I was young, I ate Ho Hos every day.
Anne Wojcicki
Day
Every Day
Young
Every
Ate
Did you know that there was a study in 1961 that found that 90 percent of physicians wouldn't tell you if you were diagnosed with cancer?
Anne Wojcicki
You
Cancer
Tell
Percent
Physicians
Study
Know
Diagnosed
Were
Did
Found
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