Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
shocked solve though
When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.
awesome death loud power problem
Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.
assumed happily life
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
audacious projects pure science
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
science intelligent winning
Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.
machines artificial-intelligence artificial
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.
bravery innovation borders
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity.
rate
Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.
facebook google killer small
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
future exotic done
Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.
catastrophe visible
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
car cent engine goes miles per ten tend work
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
games good players star step team teammates win
We are a team and that is how you have to be if you want to win games and win the important games. The star players are not always going to play their best. When you have teammates who are going to step it up it will make you a good team.