Astro Teller Quotes
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VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
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Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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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.
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Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
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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.
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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
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Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
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Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
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I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is.
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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
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I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
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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.
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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
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Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
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There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
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Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.
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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.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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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.
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Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.