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

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" 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. "

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

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" In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation. "

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

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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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" 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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" You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young 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 always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. "

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" I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. "

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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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" 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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" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

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

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" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

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" 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. "

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" I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position. "

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" We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever. "

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

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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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" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

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