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" I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way. "

Sebastian Thrun

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" I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students. "

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" I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "

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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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" When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience. "

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

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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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" 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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" There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large. "

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" Innovation means change. "

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" Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them. "

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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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