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

Sebastian Thrun

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" The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today? "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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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" The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses. "

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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 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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