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.’ – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand. – Astro Teller
Glass is the world’s worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass. – Astro Teller
Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We’ve been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there’s more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
Here is the surprising truth: It’s often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. – Astro Teller
Failing doesn’t have to mean not succeeding. It can be, ‘Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.’ – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
We’ve got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we’re going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world. – Astro Teller
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. – Astro Teller
If software’s the only thing in your bag of tools, I’m not going to give you great odds. – Astro Teller
I’m a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. – Astro Teller
Most ideas don’t work out. Almost all ideas don’t work out. So it’s okay if yours didn’t work out. – Astro Teller
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we’ll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it. – Astro Teller
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison. – Astro Teller
People text when they’re meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car’s got it under control. – Astro Teller