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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. "
Sebastian Thrun
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" Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend. "
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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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" 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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" Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works. "
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" Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. "
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" Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace. "
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" Technology is synonymous for connection with other people. "
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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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" I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road. "
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" We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever. "
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" To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. "
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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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" I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. "
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" If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. "
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" Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market. "
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" I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. "
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" At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment. "
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" Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds. "
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" The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market. "
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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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" 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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" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "
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" As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence. "
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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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" 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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" We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible. "
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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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" I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach. "
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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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