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" I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. "
Sebastian Thrun
Expectations
Life
Always
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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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" I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position. "
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" I've always believed that human learning is the result of relatively simple rules combined with massive amounts of hardware and massive amounts of data. "
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" The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market. "
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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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" Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed. "
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" We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership. "
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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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" Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. "
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" If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. "
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" I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction. "
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" It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. "
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" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "
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" Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access. "
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Access
" 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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" 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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" Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. "
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" Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview. "
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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "
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" I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. "
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" We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever. "
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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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" 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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