Tony Fadell

"Well, you can say there is a self driving car. I'm seeing the automation of vehicles. Really, computer-assisted driving. I think that is really interesting to us because we are taking all of the sensors technologies and putting them in cars and making people safer."

"If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it."

"I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it."

"Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home."

"I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte."

"Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world."

"I had been doing MP3 players and handheld computers since 1990-1991, and so they sought me out because of my experience. And about 18 generations of i Pod and three generations of i Phone later, I decided to leave Apple."

"I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why."