Mary Lou Jepsen

I'm actually an engineer.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I feel in love with holography, which is that you don't have to wear anything or carry anything. It is augmented reality,…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was,…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

All devices should just sip power and be charged like a calculator is, with a small solar cell. No power adaptors. It's…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing.…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Elon Musk is talking about silicon nanoparticles pulsing through our veins to make us sort of semi-cyborg computers. But why not take…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned.…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I took on the math-intensive art form of holography and, in my early 20s, traveled the world, living on university fellowships to…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.

— Mary Lou Jepsen

If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

In my early 30s, for a few months, I altered my body chemistry and hormones so that I was closer to a…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen

I designed a system to project video on the moon for all of humanity to see. I did this sort of as…

— Mary Lou Jepsen

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

— Mary Lou Jepsen