Astro Teller Quotes

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

I feel very confident that Americans flying in the air are safe and that only under the most dire of circumstances would our pilots ever even request permission to do that.

The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety.

Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.

When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content.

Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

Per Sr. Mgmt request, these data should not see the light of day to anyone outside of GSK.

Anything can be justified by security.

This is a people-centric system. Planes are guided and controlled by people. We will not compromise on safety.

People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

Every Olympics, they make a big deal out of something - security... traffic... pollution... something - and it really doesn't come true. For me, there's never been a problem.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.