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" Life is a process of evolution. "

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" If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error. "

" The major thing is to view biology as an information science. "

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" 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 you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right. "

" The systems approach to biology will be the dominant theme in medicine. "

" Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent. "

" 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. "

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" If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about. "

" If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all. "

" Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process. "

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" The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" What is unique about humans is their individuality. "