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" I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision. "

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" You need to set near-term milestones. Put the assumptions down on paper, and make it to your vision or ultimate product. Your team has to understand where they're going. Your partners need to understand where they're going. "

Tony Fadell

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Vision

You

" Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say 'screw this.' They hate the products. "

" Having kids makes you think about the world differently. "

" You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out. "

" We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasn't time for endless refinements. "

" To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right. "

" Thermostats are made by very large companies with no incentive to innovate. Their customers are contractors or HVAC wholesalers, not consumers. So why spend to make them better? It's a good business. "

" Studies have shown that children are less likely to wake up to a horn than the sound of a mother's voice. "

" Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally. "

" At the end of the day, customer choice is essential. And we don't make products that compete with Apple, nor make products that compete with Google. Our customers come in both iOS and Android flavors, and I hope our customers can still buy the products they want to purchase wherever they want to purchase them. "

" Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic. "

" We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.' "

" Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better. "

" With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo. "

" It can't be that difficult to build a great thermostat. So I decided to figure out: What would the thermostat for the iPhone generation look like? I got this bug. It really infected my brain. I kept thinking about it. This could be a cool product that matters and a cool product that has a great business. "

" I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why. "

" Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world. "

" Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn. "

" In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter. "

" When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through years of fixing bikes, repairing lawn mowers, I learned how things work. "

" If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it. "

" Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead. "

" It's not just about turning up or down the heat, it's about the other experiences that come with turning up or down the heat - what are we doing about energy, what are we doing about your health and safety. "

Tony Fadell

Energy

Safety

" If you look at most successful startups, they're run by people in their mid to late forties, who've gone through the trenches multiple times and had multiple failures, so they understand. "

" Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace. "

Tony Fadell

Nest

Alarm

" People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life. "

" I don't look backwards. I'm pleasantly surprised, and I feel really proud of the team and what we were able to accomplish together. But really, where I'm focused is the future and where Nest is going. "

" I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte. "

" Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home. "

" While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.' "