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" There is enormous value in face to face interaction. "
Sebastian Thrun
Enormous
Face
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" Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works. "
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" Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market. "
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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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" I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. "
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" Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position. "
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" I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen. "
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Meetings
Company
" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "
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" 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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Learning
Rules
" Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds. "
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Privilege
Health
Driving
" 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. "
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Values
Correct
Norms
" I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. "
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Everyone
" Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet. "
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Almost
" 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
" I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. "
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Study
Me
Best
" 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. "
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College
New
Risks
" We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard. "
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Ability
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" Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time. "
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" No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving. "
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State
Expressly
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" I care about education for everyone, not just the elite. "
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Just
Everyone
" 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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" Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. "
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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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" To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. "
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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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