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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Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
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The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.
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Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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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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It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
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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 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.
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When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
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We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world.
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VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.
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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.
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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.
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We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing.