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quotable quotes - December 2014

Updated: 8/14/21 7:00 amPublished: 12/16/14

At the Navigate: The Atlantic Tech Conference, Jonathan Rosenberg (advisor to Google CEO Larry Page) stated that Google[x]’s smart contact lens is the “closest” to success of all Google[x] moonshots (lingo for projects at Google[x]).

“When I talk to device manufacturers, I almost get the impression that software is an afterthought… [In diabetes] it’s astonishing how few people are working on the software that so many people are dependent on.”

– Dr. Joseph Cafazzo (University of Toronto, Canada) in a Q&A session at the November 13 workshop on interoperability.

“When people hear about diabetes, they definitely go through denial of having diabetes. But, you have to accept it and, in a funny kind of way, embrace it – if you embrace it, you hold yourself accountable and are more likely to manage it the right way.”

– Dominique Wilkins, former NBA all-star and leader of the Diabetes Dream Team Initiative.

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