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" Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen. "

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

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" This is the age of disruption. "

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

" We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever. "

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

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

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

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

" 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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" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

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

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

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

" If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice? "

" I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways. "

" 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. "

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

" You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time. "

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Better

Learn

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Innovation means change. "

" 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. "

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

" Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet. "

" 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. "