Quotes from Anne Wojcicki

My perfect weekend is going for a walk with my family in the park. I don't think there's anything better.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

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.

You should know how to take care of yourself. That's one of the things that I got from my mother most - she always said that if you don't take care of yourself, no one will.

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.

The goal of having more and more information is really to better be able to predict what is your health outcome going to be.

We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.

I want the world's data accessible.

People are used to dealing with risk.

I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.

There's clearly things you can do in your environment to try to prevent disease, and I want to know what those things are.

You are not just about death and disease.

When you have a laser focus, and you get distracted by what other people say, you can lose that laser focus.

Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.

Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

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.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.

If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

For people who want to be proactive about their health, there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to have children, I think you have a responsibility to know if you are carrying anything. A lot of people tend to do the testing once they are pregnant.

Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

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.

The FDA serves a real purpose: To protect public health.

Fashion was never my forte.