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" I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it. "

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" 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. "

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" There are two different types of prototyping. First, the gut sense. You know how far you can take it. Second, you need experts to figure out whether or not it is attainable. "

" I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing. "

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

" Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It wasn't until the Apple Macintosh that people understood what true hardware-software integration was about. It took one company to line it up: low-cost hardware, cool graphics, third-party products built on top of it, in an all-in-one attractive package that was accessible to consumer marketing. "

" Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change? "

" 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. "

" I knew there were all kinds of interesting things going on at Google, but now that I've seen them, my mind has been blown - in a great way. They have all these amazing projects and people that the world doesn't know anything about. I'm like a kid in a candy store - it's an idea factory. "

" You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety. "

" 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. "

" If you look at where the tried and true of Silicon Valley VC's are investing, it's in people who understand what it takes, who've been through it and have a network of people they can tap and resources to pull together. "

" 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.' "

" I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad. "

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

" I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems. "

" I learned the power of 'no.' No is really important. Entrepreneurs are told to say 'yes, yes, more, more.' "

" I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?' "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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