Astro Teller
Astro Teller
Astro Telleris an entrepreneur, scientist, and author, with expertise in the field of intelligent technology...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 May 1970
You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes.
edition explorer program range wide
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.
We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
mud oil takes
Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
tried
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
approach radically shoot
Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.
future knowledge piece scientist technology uses
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.
We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
cameras checking might
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
believe benefit car cars drives net people positive safer themselves whether
When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.
batteries constantly density enable great increase ten volume
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.
surprising truth
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.