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All Quotes by author - Sebastian Thrun

" Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student. "

" Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction. "

" Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet. "

" As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. "

" As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence. "

" At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment. "

" At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes. "

" Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society. "

" Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. "

" Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves. "

" Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them. "

" Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people? "

" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

" Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend. "

" Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access. "

" Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars. "

" Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure. "

" Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. "

" Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market. "

" Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works. "

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

" Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me. "

" Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen. "

" I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. "

" I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. "

" I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist. "

" I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students. "

" I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies. "

" I can give my love of learning to other people. "

" I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. "

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