Astro Teller Quotes
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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.
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Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
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Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.
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I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well.
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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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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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Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'
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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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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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Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
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If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point.
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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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You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
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We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us 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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Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.
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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.
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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.
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If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
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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.
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Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
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If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
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Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.