Quotes by Tony Fadell

“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.”

“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 iPod and three generations of iPhone later, I de...”

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

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

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

“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 se...”