Astro Teller
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.
We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.
We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.
To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary.
Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.
A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.Collection: Mean
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.Collection: Bravery
We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.Collection: World
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.Collection: Science
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.Collection: Machines
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the wayCollection: Technology
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!Collection: Assumption
Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical WorldCollection: Focus