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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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

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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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" 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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" At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes. "

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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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" 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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" There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again. "

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

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" Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry. "

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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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" We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn. "

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

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

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" Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. "

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

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" I can give my love of learning to other people. "

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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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" Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education. "

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" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "

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

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

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" With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation. "

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" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

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" Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society. "

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

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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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