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

Sebastian Thrun

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" When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. "

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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

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

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" It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves. "

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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. "

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

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" Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place. "

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

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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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" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

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

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" It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. "

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" The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses. "

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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 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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" Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace. "

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