Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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!
work
The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
assumption fallacy humans
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
digital glass harmonize people physical time
The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
bodies computing future lives second ways worn
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
aspire immediate individual means produce producing return
Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
military my-best-friend construction
I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.
responsibility character thinking
I think when you're looking for scripts or for characters around your own age, a lot of the times they don't have the kind of responsibility that is usually seen in parts that are older for you.
people unless worn
There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.