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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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" I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good. "

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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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" It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation. "

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Experimentation

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

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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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Change The World

" At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes. "

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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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" Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. "

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" I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students. "

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" There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing. "

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" 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.' "

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" Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen. "

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

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

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" There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again. "

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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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" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

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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 could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

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

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