Astro Teller Quotes

I have some ideas for things nobody's done before, and some are ideas bigger than me that I might be able to pull off, maybe.

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Think big; think disruptive. Execute with full passion.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.

Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.

Usually the first problems you solve with the new paradigm are the ones that were unsolvable with the old paradigm.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

Part of the beauty of Silicon Valley is that people generally encourage you to think crazy. It's the hypothesis that there's nothing sacred that can't be changed.

We are exploring creative models to pursue innovation outside the confines of our normal process, taking calculated risks and learning from them.

Startups, by their nature, are entrepreneurial - testing new things, launching new products, and disrupting themselves. That's why you join a startup in the first place - to create, to stretch beyond your current capabilities, and to make an outsized impact.

Leaders who can push themselves beyond their comfort zones and understand how to harness the power of reverse innovation have the chance to become the next great visionaries.

Skunk works were emblematic of corporate structures that focused on execution and devalued innovation.

Innovation, creativity, and lunacy goes hand in hand.

Innovation is what we're going to need for the future, and that's always been a part of the technology industry.

Big ideas don't make them selves known as big. They begin with the little, ridiculous ideas that most people would discard or reject. Every successful picture I've done has really been based on taking a very flimsy, fleeting little idea, grabbing hold of it, and taking it seriously.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

I think it takes a little bit of crazy to make a difference in this world.

We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.