Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products.

When I encounter a problem - something that's not quite right with a product - I enjoy breaking it down in my mind and exploring possible alternative solutions: Why this? Why not that? I apply the latest in technology and design to reinvent that product and solve my frustrations.

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

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

Learn by doing. Learn through experiences. And this goes back to Steve Jobs' thing - which is the way you open up your knowledge of the world is by discovering it and learning about it, not through books, but by being there.

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

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.