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" In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible. "

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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Education

Future

Free

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

" You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems. "

" Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts. "

" 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. "

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

" Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars. "

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

" Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people? "

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

" That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light. "

Sebastian Thrun

Find

Aim

" You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. "

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

" Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance. "

" I've always believed that human learning is the result of relatively simple rules combined with massive amounts of hardware and massive amounts of data. "

" 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. "

" I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something. "

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Society

School

" I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist. "

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

" We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling. "

" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Intelligence

Brain

" We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct. "

" 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? "

" 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. "