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" I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet. "

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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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History

" 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. "

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

" I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. "

" Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries. "

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

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

Sebastian Thrun

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Myself

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. "

" We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer. "

" Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds. "

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

" We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Time

Lot

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning. "

" The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling. "

" Innovation means change. "

" 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. "

" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

" 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. "

" There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Doing

Best

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

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