Quotes from Bill Maris

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

In genomics, there's a massive amount of information in which you can look for patterns and develop insights.

Big ideas we tend to like are the ones that seem impossible or crazy.

During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.

Antibiotics are so pervasive that they are often prescribed preemptively, as soon as patients report symptoms, before a diagnosis is made.

People talk about the redistribution of wealth a lot, which is a very valid topic. But what about the redistribution of health? That's even more concentrated at the top.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.

When you apply computer science and machine learning to areas that haven't had any innovation in 50 years, you can make rapid advances that seem really incredible.

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.

CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

Your genome isn't really secret.

Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.

If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.

I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.

We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.