A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven’t found one yet. Astro Teller Read Quote
Let’s make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill. Astro Teller Read Quote
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. Astro Teller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If software’s the only thing in your bag of tools, I’m not going to give you great odds. Astro Teller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Astro Teller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
