Astro Teller

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

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.

When I see something that I think isn't right, I think I have some kind of, for right or wrong, an obligation to fix it.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.