Anne Wojcicki Quotes

To innovate is not to reform.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

You look at any industry - you're not innovating unless people are questioning it. If you're innovating, you're doing something nobody's done before, which means you're re-writing rules, resetting boundaries, re-creating systems. And that means the traditional industry is going to question it.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

We want to challenge the established ideas with new ideas.

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

I love challenging the status quo.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

Innovation never comes from the established institutions.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

Oracle has grown and advanced because we've been consistently willing to cannibalize ourselves.

We do not need more status quo.

New ideas that fly in the face of conventional wisdom of the day are always greeted with doubt and scorn, even fear.

The way I look at the world is establishment versus change agents. The establishment is those people who want to keep things the way they are. Change agents are people like me.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo. Once that happens, we shall have forfeited, and rightly forfeited, the support of the unsatisfied, of those who are the victims of inevitable imperfections, of those who, young in years or spirit, believe that they can make a better world and of those who dream dreams and want to make their dreams to come true.