Quotes from Astro Teller

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

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

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.

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

It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Google is already overflowing with incredibly creative bright groups already working on lots of the software problems of the world.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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