Astro Teller

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.”

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

“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.”

“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?'”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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