Device Development Quotes

The big problem that UWink had was we were essentially building tablets because they hadn't been invented yet. That drove up the cost a lot.

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.

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

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology, and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.

The question of whether a device will come into being depends upon three things: first, whether there is a practical use for it that warrants its development and manufacturing costs; second, whether the laws of physics applying to the elements available for its design allow the attainment of the needed ranges, sensitivities, or the like; and third, whether the pertinent art of manufacture has advanced sufficiently to allow a useful embodiment to be built successfully.