53 Quotes by Bill Maris

The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

Time is the one thing I can't get back and can't give back to you.

To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

We're looking for people who are working on things that seem out of reach, uncomfortably difficult.

Venture funds get beaten up for not investing in important things. Okay, if you want venture funds to invest in important things, then don't penalize or make fun of them when those important things don't work.

There are environmental threats to health; there are internal threats to health - genetic conditions, viral threats, diseases like cancer and Parkinson's. And then there are societal and global ones, like poverty and lack of nutrition. And unknown viral threats - everything from a new kind of influenza to hemorrhagic fever.

The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.