Top Quotes of the Week

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”
Jeff Hammerbacher, an early employee and research scientist at Facebook, and a mentor @RockHealth. Hammerbacher was profiled as part of a Bloomberg Businessweek piece on the tech bubble.

“If you wouldn’t talk about it with a colleague in a coffee shop, then it’s not appropriate to talk about it online.”
Susan Giurleo, a psychologist and business consultant, who was interviewed for an article concerning a physician that posted a patient’s confidential medical information on Facebook.

“If he is man, he text you.”
Anonymous Bay Area taxi driver, to ChickRx co-founder Stacey Borden during the normal course of conversation.

“The hard part of doing genetic studies has been identifying enough people to get meaningful results. We’ve shown you can do it using data that’s already been collected in electronic medical records.” 
Abel Kho, on the results of his recent study in which his group combined patient information from 5 different kinds of EMRs to quickly identify large cohorts of people that had specific diseases.

“We’re redefining Alzheimer’s disease, looking at this in a different way than has ever been done. I think we’re going to start to identify it earlier and earlier.”
Creighton Phelps, director of the National Institute on Aging’s Alzheimer’s Disease Centers Program, after his team updated diagnostic guidelines for the disease for the first time in 30 years.

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