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" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

Internet

Thought

Think

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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. "

" 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. "

" Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking. "

" You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain. "

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

" 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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Ready

Architecture

" 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. "

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

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

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Make

Lot

" You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems. "

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

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Tell

" There's no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It's all iPhone apps. "

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Silicon Valley

Valley

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "