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

Sebastian Thrun

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" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

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" I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies. "

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" We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought. "

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

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

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

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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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" What I see is democratizing education will change everything. "

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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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" I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. "

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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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" You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned. "

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

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" People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea. "

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" It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game. "

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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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" 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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" If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet. "

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