Anne Wojcicki Quotes

In Silicon Valley, you want things done instantly.

Anne Wojcicki

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YouDoneWantThingsValleySilicon

Building up an organisation is like starting a social movement. At the center of everything is the core team. I have the honor of working with some phenomenal people at Purpose who are at the top of their fields. That energy and common purpose among the team is what inspires me and where the magic happens.

Jeremy Heimans

PurposePeopleMeTeamEnergyHonor

Ernest Rutherford's 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry wasn't given for the nuclear power station - he wouldn't have survived that long - it was given for showing how interesting atomic physics could be.

Andre Geim

PowerInterestingLongPhysicsPrize

I'm not going to get mad over something that I have no control over.

Max Holloway

ControlMadOverSomethingGoing

People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn't matter what genre it is.

Matthew Vaughn

PeopleWantMoviesMatterWatch

The educational highlights I remember were not in the classroom. My father spent a lot of time with me when he could. He taught me how to take square roots, a skill I have retained but do not use often, except to check that I still remember.

Angus Deaton

FatherTimeMeRootsRememberSkill

Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

Ameen Rihani

WorkPageIndependentOldText

Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

Stephanie Coontz

MarriageWomenParentingMenLabor

The first requisite for immortality is death.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

DeathFirstImmortalityRequisite

I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

Roy Ayers

GreatComplimentBeenHappenedMuch

Unless you're really interested in sleaze, you should not buy 'Newsweek.'

Liz Trotta

YouBuyInterestedShouldReally

Man's constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

Jules Verne

HealthManConstitutionNegativeYou

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Douglass North

WorkLiveWifeResearchEnvironment

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