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

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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. "

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" My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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" I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality. "

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" As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. "

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" When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience. "

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

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" This is the age of disruption. "

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

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

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" There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All! "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet. "

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

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

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