Astro Teller

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. ”

I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is. ”

The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program. ”

The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair. ”

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. ”

The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well. ”

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale. ”