Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
game high needed run school
High school basketball's a game of runs, and we just needed one little run to get us going and put us in the right direction.
avid compulsive life nurtured secret spending
I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
bothers children four society though trains
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.
bag great
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.
bitten constantly paranoid
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.
buying consider drop factor number people pickup roughly time
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.
contact faster
The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
future google happen likely physical
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.
knew needed somehow spark
I knew we needed a spark somehow with our scoring. And I had to do it to get us back in the game.
contest people
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.
best people
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.
chosen danger dangerous face situation
In a dangerous situation we have chosen the most dangerous of courses...we have chosen not to face our danger!
against beat best games good johnson obviously played talent
I played AAU against Johnson and Sims and they are obviously very good players. They have some talent on that team. We'll need to play one of our best games to beat them.