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" 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. "

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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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

Talking

Think

Way

" 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. "

" The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger. "

" Screens can work wirelessly and run on the amount of power supplied from a small solar panel and room light. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm actually an engineer. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

Engineer

Actually

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

" 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. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

Ready

Architecture

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

Make

Lot

" Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to pursue this esoteric craft. I didn't date much, really - perhaps because I didn't have many hormones, though I didn't know that at the time. "

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

Silicon Valley

Valley

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

" I didn't want to be an electrical engineer. But I did want to go to college. And they said they'd help me pay for it if I'd major in electrical engineering. "

Mary Lou Jepsen

Said

Help

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

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

" Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see. "

" These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea. "

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

Than

Realize

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

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

Mary Lou Jepsen

Hardware

Funding