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

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

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" I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something. "

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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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" I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach. "

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

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" I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. "

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

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" There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it. "

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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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" Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit. "

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

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" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "

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" I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet. "

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" Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries. "

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" I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way. "

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" Innovation means change. "

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

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" We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought. "

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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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" Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality. "

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" That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light. "

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" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

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" When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all. "

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" I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality. "

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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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" 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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