Top 33 Mary Lou Jepsen Quotes

I’m actually an engineer.

Our brains are way, way more complex than any computer we know how to make. They’re way more creative. The input’s pretty good, but the output is constrained by our tongues and jaws moving and us typing.

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.

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

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

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

A lot of people get really seduced by demos of the next display technology. I myself fell under that spell for about 20 years.

There’s no more silicon in Silicon Valley. It’s all iPhone apps.

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

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

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.

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

I never stopped dreaming of how to create a wearable to communicate with our thoughts, how to do this at consumer electronics pricing.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 reading is screens. Books are toast.

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

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

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