Top 100 Quotes About Teller
#1. We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.
Astro Teller
#2. Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush.
Robert Moss
#3. I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.
Chip Kidd
#4. Deep within we all have fantasies. Some we may want to share and others so dark we are likely to never tell anyone.
Sally V Teller
#5. I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
Penn Jillette
#6. In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.
Miles Teller
#7. The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning ... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun!
Pierre Anthon
Janne Teller
#8. In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.
Teller
#9. She believes in the words of her fortune teller, but really, anyone could have told her that if you have to stop doing the thing you love, it will kill you.
Helen Humphreys
#11. For me, I still have feelings for all of my ex-girlfriends. In different parts of my life, I would miss that person. There's something that drew me to that person, and I shared something with them.
Miles Teller
#12. Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.
Penn Jillette
#13. The faster you can get your ideas in contact with the real world, the faster you can discover what is broken with your idea.
Astro Teller
#14. Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
Penn Jillette
#16. There's no point having something worn on your body - that's a big ask - unless you can give people something they really couldn't get otherwise. It has to be qualitatively better for it to be worn.
Astro Teller
#17. I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties. I can still perform a vanish, credibly, and I still, in special circumstances, will make a balloon animal.
Ira Glass
#18. It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
Penn Jillette
#19. There's this open question of what Google is going to be a decade or more from now. Google X isn't the only answer to that question, but it was built as a place to do some of the exploration to find some great new problems for Google to tackle.
Astro Teller
#20. I am a story teller and I take each story very seriously.
Michael Welch
#21. Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of the character. If you don't have that, jokes are just empty and I think that people rely too much on jokes.
Brett Gelman
#22. Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
Teller
#23. We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
Astro Teller
#24. Common sense is a better oracle than a psychic or a fortune teller.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.
Teller
#26. I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died ... or worse.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#27. By having simplified what is known, physicists have been led into realms which as yet are anything but simple. That at some time, they, too, will appear as simple consequences of a theory of which no one has yet dreamed is not a statement of fact.It is a statement of faith.
Edward Teller
#28. Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
Edward Teller
#29. If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
Astro Teller
#30. For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.
H.L. Mencken
#31. Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin
#32. A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds of crazy knackery, it was out of control. Whatever. As if the story, if big enough, reflected glory on the teller.
China Mieville
#33. The future is all about leading a stress-free life and having all the solutions for all problems at hand.
Astro Teller
#34. None of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.
Markus Zusak
#35. A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty until found effective.
Edward Teller
#36. Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.
Edward Teller
#37. Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Penn Jillette
#38. Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.
Miles Teller
#39. When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller.
Kim Young-ha
#40. If software's the only thing in your bag of tools, I'm not going to give you great odds.
Astro Teller
#41. Actually, that issue of 'Don't be evil' is probably the number one reason we throw out ideas.
Astro Teller
#42. Anybody who's in favor of gun control is a fucking moron.
Jackie Mason
#43. Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.
Sandra Dallas
#44. The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
Astro Teller
#45. I'm not a kiss-and-teller. I never named names.
Joni Mitchell
#46. I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.
Paul Dano
#47. But I was supposed to amount to something, be someone, so I stayed where I was and just looked the other way
Janne Teller
#49. Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out.
Edward Teller
#50. If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
Val Kilmer
#51. The world is not limited by IQ. We are all limited by bravery and creativity.
Astro Teller
#52. That was the best kind of story: when the teller was as much under its spell as the listener.
Nancy Farmer
#53. It's important to not be afraid of failure and to push yourself to try things and jump in the cold water. There are incredible, beautiful opportunities out there.
Jurgen Teller
#54. The assumption that humans could be a reliable back up for the system was a fallacy!
Astro Teller
#55. I think my character rallies people together to go out and drink.
Miles Teller
#56. No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.
Edward Teller
#57. We're going to look back and wonder why we had to micro-control our cars.
Astro Teller
#58. I drummed in some rock bands. I asked for a drum kit when I was 15 and my parents were kind enough to buy me one and I just started playing with my buddies who played guitar.
Miles Teller
#59. Heredity. It's like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can't avoid. Death, for instance.
Jo Nesbo
#60. One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way
Astro Teller
#61. I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
Edward Teller
#62. My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.
Edward Teller
#63. I did plenty of jobs that I hated. I was a bank teller and terrible at it. I parked cars, a valet. I answered phones. I somehow avoided being a waiter. I knew I wouldn't be able to keep the order straight. I'm not much of a multi-tasker.
Will Ferrell
#64. I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.
Astro Teller
#65. Every fortune-teller I ever met was a faker. First thing you should do to a soothsayer is poke them in the eye and say, 'Didn't see that coming, did you?
Mark Lawrence
#66. Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
Teller
#67. I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
Astro Teller
#68. Are you a clairvoyant? A fortune-teller? If not, why anticipate the worst for yourself? Past does not equal the future, so why not think big and positive?
Maddy Malhotra
#69. I think wearables in general have, as their best calling, to better understand our current state and needs and to express those back to the world.
Astro Teller
#70. I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.
James Caan
#71. I used to have a big crush on Andie MacDowell.
Miles Teller
#72. Try that yourself sometime: Take something (or someone) you love, and -in your imagination- say goodbye forever right now. Grieve for a moment. Then feel the explosion of happiness that comes when you remind yourself you don't have to say goobye.
At least, not yet.
Teller
#73. Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
Teller
#74. I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.
Lydia Davis
#75. Sometimes we do terrible things to the ones we love just to see what harm we can cause.
Frederick Weisel
#76. A state-of-the-art calculation requires 100 hours of CPU time on the state-of-the-art computer, independent of the decade.
Edward Teller
#77. Take a seat, Charlie," he said. "I'll kill you in a few minutes. It'll be good for you.
Frederick Weisel
#78. I think the actor has a tribal role as the archetypal story teller. I think there was a time when the storyteller, the priest, the healer, were all one person in one body. That person used to weave stories at night around a small fire to keep the tribe from being terrified that sun had gone down.
Ben Kingsley
#79. I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
Erskine Caldwell
#80. Why shoot for the moon? It matters because when you try to do something radically hard, you approach the problem differently than when you try to make something incrementally better.
Astro Teller
#81. The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
Astro Teller
#82. The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.
Astro Teller
#83. Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
Astro Teller
#84. Spring was nothing but a reminder to us that we, too, would soon be gone
Janne Teller
#87. The prime motive was the desire of a tale-teller to try his hand at a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#88. When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Teller
#89. People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.
Teller
#90. Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar."
My laughter was tense, but sincere. "Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. It's only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#91. In the bank they did the same kind of stuff the fortune-teller and the bookie had done. But they dressed better.
Robert B. Parker
#92. Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
Truman Capote
#93. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
G.K. Chesterton
#94. D. H. Lawrence's "Never trust the teller. Trust the tale" is always right.
Greil Marcus
#95. I lived that year on top of a wooden tower in an area east of Santa Rosa known as the Valley of the Moon.
Frederick Weisel
#96. Your body is spewing off millions of data points a second.
Astro Teller
#97. When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.
Edward Teller
#98. I grew up in a very small town in Florida, like, 7,000 people.
Miles Teller
#99. As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
Teller
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