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" The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market. "
Sebastian Thrun
Will
Hiring
See
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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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Movies
Drive
Today
" 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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Me
Learn
" We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn. "
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Need
Fun
Education
" 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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Simple
Learning
Rules
" Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student. "
Sebastian Thrun
Education
World
Way
" We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought. "
Sebastian Thrun
Society
School
Me
" Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend. "
Sebastian Thrun
Change
Child
Death
" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "
Sebastian Thrun
Absolutely
Mercedes
Work
" 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. "
Sebastian Thrun
Time
Road
Life
" Innovation means change. "
Sebastian Thrun
Change
Means
Innovation
" I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. "
Sebastian Thrun
Study
Me
Best
" There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are. "
Sebastian Thrun
Good
Human
Getting Better
" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "
Sebastian Thrun
Enormous
Face
Value
" Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. "
Sebastian Thrun
Intelligence
Nobody
Think
" I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist. "
Sebastian Thrun
Person
I Am
See
" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "
Sebastian Thrun
Free
Education
Get
" I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach. "
Sebastian Thrun
Will
Quality
Think
" I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. "
Sebastian Thrun
Traffic
Without
Everyone
" I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet. "
Sebastian Thrun
Understand
Myself
Love
" 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. "
Sebastian Thrun
College
New
Risks
" This is the age of disruption. "
Sebastian Thrun
Disruption
Age
" I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways. "
Sebastian Thrun
Vote
Identity
Home
" 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. "
Sebastian Thrun
Guilt
Life
Myself
" 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. "
Sebastian Thrun
Time
Looking
Driving
" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "
Sebastian Thrun
Everyone
Like
Feel
" The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment. "
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Role
Assessment
Learning
" 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. "
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Everyone
Life
People
" The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses. "
Sebastian Thrun
Protesting
College
Percent
" Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. "
Sebastian Thrun
Amazing
Me
Optimist
" 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. "
Sebastian Thrun
Year
Budget
I Have Learned