Astro Teller

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point. ”

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. ”

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. ”

I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world. ”

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars. ”

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”