92 Quotes by Astro Teller

Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

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.

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

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.

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.