Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end.
tried
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.'
lives physical physics says
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.
picking starts
Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.
audacious projects pure science
Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.
chance division goal good great opportunity receive
My goal was to play at the Division I level, with a chance to play in the tournament. This is a great opportunity not only to play basketball, but to receive a good education.
carry cooler phones weight
Phones would not be better if they could be cooler looking, if they could weight less, or if they could have more battery. Phones would be better if we didn't have to carry them around.
accident car die drive eat energy lives people rest spend text year
Most of us have to spend a lot of energy to learn how to drive a car. Then we have to spend the rest of our lives over-concentrating as we drive and text and eat a burrito and put on makeup. As a result, 30,000 people die every year in a car accident in the U.S.
access avoid becoming best goes health people
Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.
believe both sure turn ultimately
We need to make sure that the things we are already working on turn out to do the things we believe they can do and creating value both for the world and ultimately for Google.
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.
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.
glasses ourselves pair rather trying understanding
Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'
people
Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.