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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.'
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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.
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Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
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We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
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Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
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It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
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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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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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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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The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
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The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
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Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
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