Anne Wojcicki Quotes

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea.

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

I just like to experiment.

My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

We especially need imagination in science.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

To be honest, I think we should find first the possibility to make it. Research is first - if you're not interested, you never can find something. Many things happen from forgotten machines - ones that are no longer used.

As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

If you're working on ideas, and you don't know what they are, keep working on them. You don't know what they'll be.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.

We love experimentation. That's where the gold nuggets come from.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

The sequence of theorist, experimenter, and discovery has occasionally been compared to the sequence of farmer, pig, truffle. The farmer leads the pig to an area where there might be truffles. The pig searches diligently for the truffles. Finally, he locates one, and just as he is about to devour it, the farmer snatches it away.