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" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

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

Mary Lou Jepsen