"The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity."
—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
"Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding."
—Astro Teller
"One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way."
—Astro Teller
"Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity."
—Astro Teller
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies".
—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
"Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important."
—Astro Teller
"Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale."
—Astro Teller
"Failures are cheap if you do them first. Failures are expensive if you do them at the end."
—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
"Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness."
—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
"Making a moonshot is almost more an exercise in creativity than it is in technology."
—Astro Teller
"If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds."
—Astro Teller
"Fall in love with the problem, not the solution."
—Astro Teller