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Astro Teller
Astro Teller
English Scientist
Born: May 29, 1970
About Better Google People World You
Related authors: Ashley Montagu Charles Darwin Erasmus Darwin Jacob Bronowski Jane Goodall Matthew Walker Richard Dawkins Thomas Huxley
Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S. Astro Teller
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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. Astro Teller
Strong Our Immediate Risk More Results Individual Take Investment Long-Term Return Still Been Goal Any Produce Means Producing Aspire Thing
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. Astro Teller
Future Knowledge Technology Binary Say Responsible Someone Wrong Piece Scientist Who Uses Ridiculous
The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair. Astro Teller
Life Good Hair Cycling Ruin Tends Look Your Helmet Save
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. Astro Teller
Science Pure Live Projects Between Science Fiction Audacious Fiction Place
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. Astro Teller
Best You People Think Way Best Way Having Like Look Just Want Explore Explored Who Things
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time. Astro Teller
Time Innovation Fail Most Essence
Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface. Astro Teller
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I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists. Astro Teller
Learning Believe Environment Exists
I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible. Astro Teller
Innovation Believe Possible Factory Making
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison. Astro Teller
Day Facebook Google Apps Killer Small Look Make Were Them Comparison
It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem. Astro Teller
Day Me Crazy You Problem Phone Car Will Hundreds Tell Solve Computer House Times Your
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. Astro Teller
Truth Better Easier Percent Something Make Surprising Times Than Often Here
I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way. Astro Teller
Me Father Big Think Society Thinking Our Way Though Kids Systematically Out Bothers Trains Children Them Naturally Even Four Think Big
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale. Astro Teller
Problem Long Big Thinking Starts Scale Something Picking Global Existing Huge Big Problem
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. Astro Teller
Great Will Increase Other Batteries Great Idea Would Find Constantly Ten Ten Times Volume Idea Over Enable Metric Density Up Times Just Again Many Start
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. Astro Teller
Everyone Range Find Something Pushed Glass Like Edition Us Explorer Uses Wide Wide Range Applications Program
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. Astro Teller
Work You Better Try Car Per Something Ten Tend Make Goes Just Where Cent Gallon Ask Miles Engine
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. Astro Teller
You Other Else Everyone Everyone Else Bitten Constantly Able Paranoid Some About Point Put Wrong Make Go Hand Optimism Get Going Place Then Plans
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. Astro Teller
People Car Control Think Driving Got Text Meant Actually Imagine
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important. Astro Teller
People Important Mental Having Different Perspectives Really Who
The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand. Astro Teller
Life Future Problems Solutions About Having Leading Hand
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. Astro Teller
Physics Law Digital Our Says Physical No Law Between Because Just Just Because Connected Lives
I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is. Astro Teller
Best Will Own Think Society Our Out See More Only Purpose Take Part Contact Glass Lens Figure Each Things Watch
The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program. Astro Teller
Great Decision Too Much Too Somewhat Allowed Well Encouraged Did Much Explorer Exposure Thing Program
When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.' Astro Teller
Work You Technology Our Our Lives Says Vanishes Invisibility Ultimate Ultimate Goal Goal Lives Level
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