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" The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain. "

Sebastian Thrun

Book

Time

Brain

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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. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Position

Myself

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Good

You

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Technology is synonymous for connection with other people. "

" Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry. "

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

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" We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct. "

" I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. "