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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. that's true of all types of consumer electronics.

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second version of it is released, I just can't resist. I live in a state of perpetual Beta.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

The days of trying to get a consumer to come to you are over. You really have to be in the consumer's world, wherever, whenever and however.