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 Read Quote
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon – Google-scale opportunities. Astro Teller Read Quote
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?’ Astro Teller Read Quote
If you’re shooting to make the world 10% better, you’re in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world – and you’re going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world. Astro Teller Read Quote
We don’t have some message from God that gives us a list of what’s good and what’s not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing. Astro Teller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Actually, that issue of ‘Don’t be evil’ is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas. Astro Teller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what’s important. Astro Teller Read Quote
