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“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.”
“Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.”
“The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.”
“Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.”
“Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.”
“Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.”
“The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.”
“Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.”
“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.”