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" The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher. "

Sebastian Thrun

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" I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way. "

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" Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them. "

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" Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people? "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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" Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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" There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again. "

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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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" 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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" It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves. "

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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

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" We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world. "

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" Innovation means change. "

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

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" You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio. "

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" The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses. "

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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. "

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" There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are. "

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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 had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. "

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" 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. "

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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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