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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There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps.
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My health used to limit me, but now it's sort of an advantage.
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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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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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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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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 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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Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.
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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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These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.
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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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The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.
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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 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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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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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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If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive.
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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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I didn't want to be an electrical engineer. But I did want to go to college. And they said they'd help me pay for it if I'd major in electrical engineering.
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The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.
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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.