There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design. But to put them together and make it robust and repeatable for the mass market? It's an art.

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.

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

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

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

There are a lot of designers who think they understand technology and a lot of technology guys who think they understand design. But to put them together and make it robust and repeatable for the mass market? It's an art.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.