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" Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning. "

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence. "

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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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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

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

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" Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. "

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

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

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

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" At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment. "

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" What I see is democratizing education will change everything. "

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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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" Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. "

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

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" With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life. "

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

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

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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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" Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. "

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

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

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