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All Quotes by author - Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years. "

" As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. "

" Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions. "

" Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers. But why not take a noninvasive approach? I've been working and trying to think and invent a way to do this for a number of years and finally happened upon it and left Facebook to do it. "

" Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design. "

" For the devices we use... the funding models are completely screwed up. Angel funding isn't sufficient for hardware. "

" I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if you're listening to me or not. That's possible with an MRI now. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine - a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine - into a wearable in the form of a ski hat. "

" If I throw you into an MRI machine right now, I can tell you what words you're about to say. "

" If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do. "

" If you can make a lot more of something, you can make it much more inexpensive. "

" I have decided to leave Facebook and Oculus to work on curing diseases using some new imaging technologies I've been incubating for awhile. "

" 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. "

" I'm actually an engineer. "

" I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible. "

" I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time. "

" It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base. "

" I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays. "

" 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. "

" I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun. "

" I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology. "

" More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize. "

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