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

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" No amount of data will tell you if a feature should be in the product, because it doesn't exist. You need to have a very clear leader with a clear point of view... otherwise, you get a mishmash of features and stuff that doesn't make a lot of sense. "

" I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I decided to leave Apple. "

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" 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? "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "