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

Sebastian Thrun

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" I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road. "

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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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" 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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" The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher. "

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

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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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" 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 find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality. "

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

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" There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better. "

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" This is the age of disruption. "

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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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" We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership. "

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" Innovation means change. "

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" Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry. "

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" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "

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

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