92 Quotes by Astro Teller

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'

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.

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

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.

There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.

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?'

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

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

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.