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
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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.
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There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
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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.
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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.
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The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.
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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.
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The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.