Dellera Astro Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Astro Types

Aries is the forward type
He doesn't lose his head
Except when charging headlong in
Where "Angels fear to tread".

Taurus has a pretty face
And likes her comfort best.
She'll eat you out of house and home
Then take the longest rest. ~ Bernie Morris, Colleen Thatcher

Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display. ~ Astro Teller

But resiliency only means that a thing retains its shape. That it doesn't break, or lose its ability to function. It doesn't mean a child forgets the time she shared in the backyard with her mother gardening, or the fun they had together watching Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Astro. It just means she learns to bear it. The mechanism that allowed Lisa Sample to keep her head above water in the wake of her mother's departure has not been described or cataloged by scientists. It's efficient, and flexible, and probably transferable from one person to another should they catch the scent on each other. But the rest of the details about it aren't observable from the outside. You have to be closer than you really want to get to see how it works. ~ John Darnielle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People do really stupid things while driving. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

There is no law of physics that says just because we're connected, there has to be this schism between our physical lives and our digital lives. ~ 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 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