Astro Teller Quotes

In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.

Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

Mobiles mean people know where you are.

There's more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners - that's frightening.

As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is!

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo possible.

The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.

There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial.

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate statement that is. You see, Pop never used a tape measure. He didn't believe in it. He said he could just look at a man and tell his size, with the result that frequently he'd make a pair of pants with one trouser leg seven or eight inches longer than the other.

We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

May I remind you that the bombs that were dropped by the B-2 plane on the Chinese embassy  or at least that is what we were told  were GPS bombs. And the B-2 flew in from the US.

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few.

Victory favors the team making the fewest mistakes.

Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . .

I have a map of the united states .... it's original size ... it says one mile equals one mile.