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title: "2 Glass Quotes By Steve Mann"
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> [What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the world though that glass. The glass then reconfigures the things you see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/what-i-envisioned-back-in-the-1970s-was-this-thing-you-would-wear-as/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/170/steve-mann-36867_back_what-i-envisioned-back-in-the-1970s-was_1679048.jpg)

> [There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/there-will-be-apple-glass-and-google-glass-and-rim-glass-these/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31a/steve-mann-36867_also_there-will-be-apple-glass-and-google-gla_2620927.jpg)

## More by Steve Mann

> [What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/what-i-argue-is-that-if-i-m-going-to-be-held-accountable-for-my/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [“Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/let-us-never-fear-robbers-nor-murderers-those-are-dangers-from/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/there-were-a-lot-of-people-i-found-whod-rather-watch-me-live-my-life/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/shoes-and-clothing-damage-our-ability-to-survive-naked-in-the/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/i-started-connecting-things-to-my-body-during-my-childhood-i/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [What I envisioned back in the 1970s was this thing you would wear as 'glass' over your right eye, and you could see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/what-i-envisioned-back-in-the-1970s-was-this-thing-you-would-wear-as/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/the-use-of-the-wearable-computer-changes-with-each-person-when-this/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/there-were-a-lot-of-people-i-found-who-d-rather-watch-me-live-my-life/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/virtual-reality-researchers-have-long-struggled-to-eliminate-effects/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [If you look through the history of wearables, I was named the father of wearable computing, or the world's first cyborg. But the definition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/if-you-look-through-the-history-of-wearables-i-was-named-the-father/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/there-will-be-apple-glass-and-google-glass-and-rim-glass-these/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

> [“The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steve-mann/the-guilty-one-is-not-the-person-who-has-committed-the-sin-but-the/)

[Steve Mann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steve-mann/)

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