Astro Teller

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out. ”

The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you. ”

When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have. ”

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. ”

I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better. ”

Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology. ”

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. ”

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes. ”