Quotes from Astro Teller

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?'

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.

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.

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

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.

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.

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.

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

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.

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.

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.

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.

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.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.

Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.

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.

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.

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.