Mary Lou Jepsen

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I worked on heads-up displays, virtual-reality technology, and holographic displays - all sorts of really cool technology.”

“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.”