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Quotes from Astro Teller

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
~ Astro Teller
Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.
~ Astro Teller
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
~ Astro Teller
The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
~ Astro Teller
Great dreams aren't just visions. They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real.
~ Astro Teller
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~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
~ Astro Teller
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
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.
~ Astro Teller
When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
~ Astro Teller
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
~ Astro Teller