Quotes from Mary Lou Jepsen

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

You can get really great reflective screens that rival e-paper at really amazing price points and with fantastic ultra-low-power capabilities.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.