If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

The bottleneck wasn't, How do we make pixels prettier? It was, How do we engage with them more?

In fiber optics, the cable is a light pipe or waveguide, into which you inject light. If a finger presses on the pipe, it disrupts that light within the waveguide.

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.

Multi-touch-sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

That’s the thing about life. You don’t always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.

History is biology's dumping ground

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Connection is what one is after in probably most media, but certainly in film, which is an immersive medium.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

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