Quotes from Astro Teller

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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

People do really stupid things while driving.

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

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