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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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

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" 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. "

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" Technology is synonymous for connection with other people. "

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" When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. "

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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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" Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed. "

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

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

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" Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. "

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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. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me. "

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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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" Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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

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

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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

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