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.

We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.

As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.