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

Sebastian Thrun

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" When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. "

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" If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet. "

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" I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. "

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" The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market. "

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" 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. "

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" Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance. "

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" No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving. "

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" The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling. "

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" I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. "

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

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" If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. "

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" Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time. "

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

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" Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning. "

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" There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All! "

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" I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. "

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" 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. "

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" There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing. "

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

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" Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. "

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" To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. "

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" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

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" We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard. "

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" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

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" You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio. "

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" The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain. "

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" 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. "

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" I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.' "

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" There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are. "

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