Mary Lou Jepsen Quotes
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Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.
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You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities.
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After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.
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My health used to limit me, but now it's sort of an advantage.
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Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.
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There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.
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I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing.
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These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.
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I started a company called Pixel Qi and the principal of as we're going, smartphones were happening, but as we go forward, the predictions were five devices per person. Do you want to charge each one of those every night to try to get them on a full charge when you're walking around? Smartphones don't even last a day without a recharge now.
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I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.
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I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left.
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I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.
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I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.
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I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.
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I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality, if you will.
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All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's easy to put a solar cell into a device, but it's not powerful enough to drive today's cell phones or laptops. They need too much power to run.
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The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.
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I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile.
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The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.
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One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.
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I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as therapy as I was doing my Ph.D. in device physics.
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Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They're way more creative. The input's pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing.
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In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a man in his early 20s. I was blown away by how dramatically my thoughts changed.
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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.