Say you have cancer - you have this broad thing we call cancer; we're going to irradiate you and pump this poisonous material into you and hope more of the bad stuff dies than the good. That is going to seem so medieval when we can fix it on a genetic level, and Foundation Medicine is the first step to diagnosing it on a genetic level.
More Quotes by Bill Maris
Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.
Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.
I sign off not only every investment, but every dollar that goes out the door - I'm aware of it.
The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.
We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.
If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.