My divorce wasn't fun.
I have an unreasonably optimistic view of the world.
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.
I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!
You don't necessarily want your physician to have all your information.
I grew up with my mom being very, very cheap, so when it's free, I'm like, 'Oh my God, it's free - I have to take as much as I can!'
I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.
One of the most exciting aspects of 23andMe is that we're enabling you to watch a revolution unfold live during your lifetime, and I think that the decoding of the genome, in my opinion, is the most fascinating discovery of our lifetime, and you get to be part of it.
I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.
Health is not sort of like a 6-month project. Health is a lifetime accumulation of behaviors.
I think that the idea of people wanting to steal your genome remains a little bit in the world of science fiction.
In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.
Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.
Big data is going to make us all healthier.
There's going to be space travel at some point.
Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
I feel that gender balance in the work environment is actually the best recipe for success.
Pharma companies don't have a direct relationship with consumers, so they're always subjects.
You can get so much value just from being genotyped.
