Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
people unless worn
There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.
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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.
glasses ourselves pair rather trying understanding
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?'
people
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.
great mix
Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
car imagine meant people text
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.
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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.
main
Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
interface signal wear
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.
almost work yours
Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
level reaches technology ultimate work
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.'
facebook google killer small
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
surprising truth
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
believe environment learning
I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.