Astro Teller Quotes

We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical elements are understood - climate change, energy supply, health care, and infrastructure, to name just a few.

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

There is no miracle cure for the many problems of the world.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

You look at the large problems that we face - that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose - all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

Consumers around the world are more aware of the multiple global crises we face than ever before, thanks to information found on the Internet.

I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet.

Global challenges require collective responses.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

The world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities.

I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.

There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.