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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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

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" No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving. "

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

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" Innovation means change. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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? "

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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 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence. "

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" I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year. "

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