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
Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.
If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
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.
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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.'
Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
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.
Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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.
The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
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.
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.
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.
Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.
Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
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.
We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
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.
The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.
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.
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
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.
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.
The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.
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.
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
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.'
People do really stupid things while driving.
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.
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.
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.
The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.
