Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Astro Teller - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.

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.

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition.

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

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

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.

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.

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

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

Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.

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

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding.

Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World

We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.

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.