Astro Teller Quotes

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.

I keep hearing about battery innovation, but it never makes it to my phone.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery.

In music, which was my world before, you've got thousands and thousands of years of great ideas that have already been thought of. But the internet is basically 20 years old. So you can be way stupider and still have world-changing ideas.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

Every great device, gadget, electric car, and robot would be even greater if batteries didn't suck so badly.

Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted.

I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

It is hard to see taxing plastic bags as one of the great issues of our time that merits the foremost place in our finest statesmen's minds. It is an absurd little issue, a picayune proportion of household waste, and a pointless inconvenience in people's lives.

We need people building companies all over the country to innovate in aviation, consumer products, education, health, cybersecurity, biotech, manufacturing, and everything in between.

Through strategic diplomacy, private-public sector partnerships, and innovative new ideas, the Trump administration has advanced policies that will benefit millions of working families here in the United States and abroad.

From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host of different public agencies, has provided direct financing not only of basic research but also public venture capital; both Apple and Tesla have received direct public funding.

From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.

Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value.

The world is moving towards renewable green energy, and electric transportation is a big part of that.

If you have the wind farms but no transmission, you just have things blowing in the wind.

I am betting on Google's team to be the epicenter of future breakthroughs.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.