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

Sebastian Thrun

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" I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet. "

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" 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. "

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" There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again. "

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" In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation. "

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

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" People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea. "

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" You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. "

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" Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts. "

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" In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us. "

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" You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence. "

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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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" You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems. "

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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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" Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. "

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

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" We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation. "

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" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

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" I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea. "

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" I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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