Astro Teller Quotes
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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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VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
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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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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable 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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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in 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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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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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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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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Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
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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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I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
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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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We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
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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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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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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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I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible.
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The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.
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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.