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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?'

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Topics: Better Computer Functionality Give Glasses How Make Ourselves Pair Rather Say Smart Start Than Thinking Trying Understanding You

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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.

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Topics: Better Contest Else Everyone Everyone Else Going Lose Make Many People Shooting Smart Smart People Too World You

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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.

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Topics: Almost Creativity Exercise Making More Technology Than

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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

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Topics: Creativity Instead Main Muscle Storytelling Use Your

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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.

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Topics: About Each Flawed Gives God Good Judgments List Make Message Obviously Our Own Some Thing Us

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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.

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Topics: Again Batteries Constantly Density Enable Find Great Great Idea Idea Increase Just Many Metric Other Over Start Ten Ten Times Times Up Volume Will Would

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Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.

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Topics: Actually Evil Ideas Issue Number Out Reason Throw

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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.

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Topics: Advantage Any Better Bodies Company Computing Could Future Lives Make Our Our Lives Second Sensors Set Started Take Take Advantage Up Ways Worn

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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

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Topics: Broken Contact Discover Faster Get Idea Ideas Real Real World The Real World World You Your

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The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.

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Topics: Applications Edition Everyone Explorer Find Glass Like Program Pushed Range Something Us Uses Wide Wide Range

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 29th, 1970

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