Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.
almost work yours
Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
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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.
Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.
We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place.
best currently hearts human technology
We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
character thinking skills
I start a boxing movie and that's kind of something I've been able to get to the gym for. It's great anytime you can parallel a skill that your character has. I just think it makes it even more rewarding.
care
In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.
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Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.
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A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
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Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology.
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I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.
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Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.