English - Scientist | May 29, 1970 -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.
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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.
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Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
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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.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
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Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.
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There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives.
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We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
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