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“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.”
“The future of screens isn't about the iPad. It's much, much bigger.”
“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.”
“For the devices we use... the funding models are completely screwed up. Angel funding isn't sufficient for hardware.”
“You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities.”
“Redirecting sunlight on the earth to the moon gives you enough light so that all of humanity can see.”
“One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.”
“My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.”
“The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.”
“I think that's the point of what we all should all be doing: trying to make the impossible possible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.”
“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.”
“If I throw you into an MRI machine right now, I can tell you what words you're about to say.”
“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.”
“More of us may be affected by variant hormone levels than we realize.”
“You see very senior women leaving technology and the men stay, mostly because they feel quite isolated and are isolated by the very systems.”