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

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Source : "Q&A: Tony Fadell, CEO of Nest, on making home products cool". Interview with Dana Hull, www.mercurynews.com. October 18, 2013.

Tony Fadell

“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
“What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!”
“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
“I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.”
“We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.”
“Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.”
“Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”
“Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.”

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