Anne Wojcicki Quotes

Back in 1995, I saw an incredible wave coming. The Internet. I knew I needed to be a part of it no matter what I did.

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web... Now even my cat has its own page.

And, you know, I came out of college in the early '90s. That was a great time to exit school and get a job in the dot-com world and get educated.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

The speed at which technology evolves affects everyone; we repeatedly hear that constant innovation is overwhelming for consumers, who struggle to keep pace.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.

No consumer product improves more drastically, year after year, than the computer.

I'm hoping they slow down a little bit with technology, because I'm just trying to keep up.

On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Technology has become our culture

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

Please, join the modern world.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

I like new technology.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.