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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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Topics: Ask Better Car Cent Engine Gallon Goes Just Make Miles Per Something Ten Tend Try Where Work You

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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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Topics: Able About Bitten Constantly Else Everyone Everyone Else Get Go Going Hand Make Optimism Other Paranoid Place Plans Point Put Some Then Wrong You

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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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Topics: Actually Car Control Driving Got Imagine Meant People Text Think

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

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Topics: Different Having Important Mental People Perspectives Really Who

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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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Topics: Best Best Way Explore Explored Having Just Like Look People Things Think Want Way Who You

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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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Topics: Basis Car Glass Google Money Project Take Think Unless Worth

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

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Topics: About Future Hand Having Leading Life Problems Solutions

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Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.

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Topics: Approach Because Better Differently Hard Make Matters Moon Problem Radically Shoot Something Than Try Why You

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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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Topics: Attack Come Even Harder How Know More Never Problem Shocked Solve Though Times Up Were Will Worth Worth It You

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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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Topics: Error Going Huge Just Just As Much Matter Much Rate

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Scientist

Born: May 29th, 1970

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