We built the iPod in weeks. It had to be what I thought it was going to be because there wasnt time for endless refinements.

If you're not having doubt, you're not pushing the boundaries far enough.

It's easy to solve a problem that everyone sees, but it's hard to solve a problem that almost no one sees.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it.

We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

The truth is, homes change over time — and technology has to adapt, not try to do everything at once.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.

The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.

No man is so great as mankind.