Astro Quotes & Sayings

Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end. — Astro Teller

Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second. — Astro Teller

We are serious as a heart attack about making the world a better place. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer. — Astro Teller

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes. — Nicolas Cage

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.' — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

Google[x]'s Focus on the Physical World — Astro Teller

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction. — Astro Teller

It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem. — Astro Teller

We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people. — Cynthia Breazeal

D) sometimes everyone ends up happier Question 5: True Love: — Astro Teller

People do really stupid things while driving. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability. — Astro Teller

I do believe that making a factory for innovation, a moon-shot factory, is possible. — Astro Teller

Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems. — Astro Teller

If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but miserable and saturnine that's a disaster, because a disaster is a dis-astro, or misplaced planet. Disaster is Latin for ill-starred.
The fault, as Shakespeare put it, is not in our stars; but the language is. — Mark Forsyth

The astro-philosophers of Krull once succeeded in proving conclusively that all places are one place and that the distance between them is an illusion, and this news was an embarrassment to all thinking philosophers because it did not explain, among other things, signposts. After years of wrangling the whole thing was then turned over to Ly Tin Wheedle, arguably the Disc's greatest philosopher* who after some thought proclaimed that although it was indeed true that all places were one place, that place was very large. — Terry Pratchett

I didn't like The Astrodome or any of the Astro-Turf fields. Probably my worst ballpark was The Met in Minnesota; I hated that place. I was so glad when they tore that place down, you have no idea. — Rollie Fingers

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. — Astro Teller

Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

You make a ton of progress by making a ton of mistakes. — Astro Teller

I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City Volume 2 #1,' which was about a guy who had two daughters. In both cases, about a year and a half or two years apart. And then after that, I had two daughters, about a year and a half or two years apart. — Kurt Busiek

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. — Astro Teller

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel. — Astro Teller

I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world. — Astro Teller

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead. — Astro Teller

She also told me about the night one of her astrophysics friends went to a bar trivia contest where the final question was "What does Kelvin measure?" The winning answer was "heat," but her friend explained that Kelvin measures temperature, not heat, since heat is energy and is measured in energy units like joules or ergs. The astronomer refused to back down, until the battle had to be settled with a chug-off. These astro people are hard-core. — Rob Sheffield

I'll be a Houston Astro no matter what ... I would certainly want to leave myself open to a return to the team if that made sense for the organization and for me as well. — Lance Berkman

The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity. — Astro Teller

Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City.

But what if the ones who set the rules are the ones lying to you?

What if the ones who reprimand the rule-breakers are lying to you?

Who do you believe when there is nobody left to believe? — Lisa Alfonso

Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it. — Astro Teller

The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand. — Astro Teller

ASTRO-GYMNASTICS
Go on a starlit night,
stand on your head,
leave your feet dangling
outwards into space,
and let the starry
firmament you tread
be, for the moment,
your elected base.
Feel Earth's colossal weight
of ice and granite,
of molten magma,
water, iron, and lead;
and briefly hold
this strangely solid planet
balanced upon
your strangely solid head. — Piet Hein

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. — Astro Teller

A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet. — Astro Teller

If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds. — Astro Teller

When we finally head outside to walk toward the big silver Astro van that will take us to the launch pad, it's that moment everyone knows: flashbulbs pop in the pre-dawn darkness, the crowd cheers, we wave and smile. In the van, we can see the rocket in the distance, lit up and shining, an obelisk. In reality, of course, it's a 4.5-megaton bomb loaded with explosive fuel, which is why everyone else is driving away from it. — Chris Hadfield

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. — Astro Teller

Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities. — Astro Teller

The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy! — Astro Teller

If you don't have a tonne of optimism, you're not going to make it ... you won't be able to evangelise to everyone else. On the other hand, if you aren't constantly paranoid about what can go wrong and put plans in place, then you're going to get bitten at some point. — Astro Teller

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?' — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

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Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness. — Astro Teller

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way. — Astro Teller

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity. — Astro Teller

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill. — Astro Teller

We don't have some message from God that gives us a list of what's good and what's not good. Obviously, we have to make our own flawed judgments about each thing. — Astro Teller

The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan. — Stephen King

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important. — Astro Teller

I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that. — Astro Teller

The real goal of AI is to understand and build devices that can perceive, reason, act, and learn at least as well as we can. — Astro Teller

I believe that the right thing for us to do, as much as we can and without confusing people, is to talk about how we're doing, the things that are going well but also the things that aren't going well. — Astro Teller

We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us. — Astro Teller

The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program. — Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better. — Astro Teller

To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary. — Astro Teller

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass. — Ken Kesey

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. — Astro Teller

If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world. — Astro Teller

People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control. — Astro Teller

The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia. — Astro Teller

We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it. — Astro Teller

I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works. — David Alan Basche

There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle. — Astro Teller

I'm a father to four kids, so it bothers me that even though our children think big naturally, our society systematically trains them out of thinking that way. — Astro Teller

I think we'll see, not only with Glass, but the watch wearables, with the contact lens, that each of these things have their own best purpose, but it will take more on our part and society's part to figure out what that is. — Astro Teller

Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology. — Astro Teller

Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding. It can be, 'Hey we tried that. We can go forward, smarter.' — Astro Teller

Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it. — Astro Teller

We've got rings, glasses, we wear things for armor, for protection from the elements, to signal our status to other people. And we're going to co-opt a lot of those things, where wearables are going to end up being the interface between us in the world. — Astro Teller

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you. — Astro Teller

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. — Astro Teller

As the cosmos continues to cool - dropping below a hundred million degrees - protons fuse with protons as well as with neutrons, forming atomic nuclei and hatching a universe in which ninety percent of these nuclei are hydrogen and ten percent are helium, along with trace amounts of deuterium ("heavy" hydrogen), tritium (even heavier hydrogen), and lithium. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

My first TV crush was Elroy Jetson, because he was so cute. And I wanted to play with Astro on his automatic dog-walker thing. — Alyson Hannigan

The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass. — Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale. — Astro Teller

Ultimately, a timeless story has to be about the human condition. — Astro Teller

Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better. — Astro Teller

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way. — Astro Teller

We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars. — Astro Teller

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way — Astro Teller

I don't believe a mistake-free learning environment exists. — Astro Teller

VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison. — Astro Teller

We are proposing that there is value in a totally new product category and a totally new set of questions. Just like the Apple II proposed, 'Would you reasonably want a computer in your home if you weren't an accountant or professional?' That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged. — Astro Teller

Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out. — Astro Teller