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

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" Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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'm actually an engineer. "

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Actually

" The future of reading is screens. Books are toast. "

" 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. "

" The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger. "

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

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Than

Realize

" 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. "

" My central thesis is that combining increased temporal and spatial resolution in MRI techniques with increasingly powerful data correlation techniques will allow the derivation of interpreted meanings from neural signals. I observed, further, that the techniques that exist already allow some correlations. "

" 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 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. "

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

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Make

Lot

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" My health used to limit me, but now it's sort of an advantage. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

Advantage

Limit

" 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. "

" 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. "