If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
An important finding is that by determining the genome sequences of an entire family, one can identify many DNA sequencing errors and thus greatly increase the accuracy of the data. This will ultimately help us understand the role of genetic variations in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.
Genes are natural resources.
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process.
In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.
Each form of Alzheimer's disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.
If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved.
What is unique about humans is their individuality.
We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.
Your genome sequence will become a vital part of your medical record, thereby providing critical information about how to optimize your wellness.
