Anne Wojcicki Quotes

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

We are drowning in information.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world. It started out that computer scientists were worried nobody was listening to us. Now I'm worried that too many people are listening.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.

Software makes the world go round.