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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 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth. "

" I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. "

" Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place. "

" 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. "

" If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice? "

" 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! "

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

" 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

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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. "

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

" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

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

" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

" I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. "

" I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet. "

" 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. "

" When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all. "

" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "