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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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? "

" I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "