Quotes by Astro Teller - Page 2

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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Big Problems
Boots
Mud
Oil
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Meaningfully
Physical World
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Hundreds
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Think Big
Naturally
Bothers
Trains
Systematically
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We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Car
Google
Basis
Project
Glass
Unless
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I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Google
Privacy
Uncomfortable
Glass
Grant
Needle
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Flawed
Judgments
List
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A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Batteries
Density
Great Idea
Enable
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Range
Wide
Applications
Edition
Glass
Uses
Wide Range
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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 / Scientist
Cameras
Bar
Checking
Hundreds
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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.'
Astro Teller / Scientist
Invisibility
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Vanishes
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Approach
Moon
Problem
Why
Matters
Shoot
Radically
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Shooting
Smart
Smart People
Contest
Everyone Else
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Phones
Battery
Cooler
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Miles
Ten
Cent
Engine
Gallon
Per
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There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.
Astro Teller / Scientist
No Point
Worn
Your Body
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Loud
Motorcycle
Awesome
Inefficient
Trap
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Advantage
Computing
Our Lives
Sensors
Worn
Bodies
Take Advantage
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Confusing
Right Thing
Believe People Doing
Believe I Believe People
The Right Thing
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Digital
Time People Way
Naturally
Glass
Harmonize
Help People
Situated
Specifically
Worlds
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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 / Scientist
Harder
Shocked
Solve
Worth It
Will Never Know
Will Never More
Attack
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To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Knowledge
Future
Technology
Binary
Ridiculous
Scientist
Wrong
Piece
Uses
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Be Strong
Benefit
Drives
Net
Safer
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Aspire
Investment
Long Term
Return
Immediate
Producing
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Contact
Purpose
Figure
Glass
Lens
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Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Science
Intelligent
Winning
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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?'
Astro Teller / Scientist
Functionality
Glasses
Pair
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Exploration
Google
Decade
Tackle
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Armor
Elements
Glasses
Protection
Rings
Where World People
World People End
Interface
Signal
Status
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Artificial
Comment
Engaging
Well Known
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Car Accident
Makeup
Accident
Text
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Plans
Bitten
Everyone Else
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Sacrifice
Life Death Day
Bleed
Carrying
Hundreds
Interface
Millions Of People
Monitor
User
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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 / Scientist
Judged
Accountant
Category
Apple
Apple Ii
Glass
In The End
Proposed
Reasonably
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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.
Astro Teller / Scientist
Batteries
Density
Great Idea
Volume
Great Start Will
Enable
Ten Times
Metric
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