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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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

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

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" We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct. "

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

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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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" I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. "

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

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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. "

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" I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position. "

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

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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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" The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market. "

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" Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people? "

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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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" You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio. "

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" At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment. "

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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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" Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance. "

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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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" We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world. "

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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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" I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. "

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" I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea. "

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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 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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" 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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