92 Quotes by Astro Teller

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.

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

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

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.

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.

I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists.