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" In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

People

Ability

Falling

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. "

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

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

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

Sebastian Thrun

Study

Best

" 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. "

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

" It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves. "

" Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality. "

" I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Education

Behind

" I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Good

You

" To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. "

" The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain. "

" Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Wonderful

People

" 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. "

" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

" 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. "