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" 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! "

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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Success

Learning

Science

" In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible. "

" 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. "

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

" Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance. "

" I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me. "

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

" Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace. "

Sebastian Thrun

Doing

Best

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

Robot

Last

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Better

Learn

" 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

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

" 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. "

" Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access. "

Sebastian Thrun

Elite

Access

" Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all. "

" 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

Optimist

" 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. "

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

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

" We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard. "

" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

" 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. "