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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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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 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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