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
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
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world. – Astro Teller
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
We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google. – Astro Teller
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
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. – Astro Teller
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
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
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
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale. – Astro Teller
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
The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea. – Astro Teller
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
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
Actually, that issue of ‘Don’t be evil’ is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas. – Astro Teller
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon – Google-scale opportunities. – 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. – Astro Teller
The longer you work on something, the more you don’t really want to know what the world is going to tell you. – Astro Teller
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end. – Astro Teller