Mary Lou Jepsen

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

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.

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

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.

Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.

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.

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.

I'm actually an engineer.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.

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 reading is screens. Books are toast.

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