Words matter. These are the best Astro Teller Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that’s what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
Here is the surprising truth: It’s often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
I’m a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way.
We don’t have some message from God that gives us a list of what’s good and what’s not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.
I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn’t look good and tends to ruin your hair.
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we’ll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
The Explorer edition of Glass wasn’t for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.
Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
People text when they’re meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car’s got it under control.
Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what’s important.
We’re going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables – sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
If software’s the only thing in your bag of tools, I’m not going to give you great odds.
I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world.
Actually, that issue of ‘Don’t be evil’ is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.
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.
If you’re shooting to make the world 10% better, you’re in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world – and you’re going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
Glass is the world’s worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe – whether we’re right or not – we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.
I’m a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon – Google-scale opportunities.
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.
Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We’ve been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there’s more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
The longer you work on something, the more you don’t really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
We don’t take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it’s worth Google’s money to do it.
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.
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
