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" 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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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" I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if you're listening to me or not. That's possible with an MRI now. "

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" 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. "

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" I started a company called Pixel Qi and the principal of as we're going, smartphones were happening, but as we go forward, the predictions were five devices per person. Do you want to charge each one of those every night to try to get them on a full charge when you're walking around? Smartphones don't even last a day without a recharge now. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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