“Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect'...” — Tony Fadell Quote

Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

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 home.

To help you focus, to help you really understand what you're doing, you have to say no a lot. When you say yes to everything, you get distracted. When you say no, you have to get the one thing you're doing really right.

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.'

I'm like a fire hose when the alarm goes off in a battle against a woman. Don't ever count me out.

But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth.

I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.

I remember when I was a kid, maybe in junior high, I used to set my alarm clock to the classical station to wake up to.