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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind. "

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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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" 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. "

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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 believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies. "

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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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" We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn. "

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" Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society. "

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" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

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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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" I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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" We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

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" The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling. "

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

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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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" 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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