Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
assumption fallacy humans
The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
focus google world
Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World
humanity way problem
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
technology google way
One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
fourth normally passive shots
We started getting passive in the fourth quarter. We didn't take some of the shots we normally take.
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.
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.
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!
batteries constantly density enable great increase ten volume
It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea.