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" If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me. "

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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Education

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Way

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

" I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. "

" There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you. "

" Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction. "

" 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. "

" You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time. "

Sebastian Thrun

Better

Learn

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence. "

Sebastian Thrun

Intelligence

Brain

" This is the age of disruption. "

Sebastian Thrun

Disruption

Age

" There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it. "

" I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody. "

" The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment. "

" With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life. "

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

" If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice? "

" Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Elite

Access

" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "

Sebastian Thrun

Everyone

Feel

" 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. "