Leroy Hood Quotes

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

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

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.

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities ...

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

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

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

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

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Life is a process of evolution.

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

Genes are natural resources.

Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.

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.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

We don't argue if drug companies create drugs that can cure humans and charge lots of money for them, even though we all have these diseases. It will be pretty hard to make a different argument for genes.

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.

I have good genes, and I also do lots of exercises.

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.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

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

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.