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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Glass is the world’s worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass. Astro Teller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end. Astro Teller Read Quote
Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world. Astro Teller Read Quote
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. Astro Teller Read Quote
