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" There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large. "

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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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" Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries. "

" I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist. "

" 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. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Elite

Access

" 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? "

" This is the age of disruption. "

Sebastian Thrun

Disruption

Age

" 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. "

" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

" 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

" As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence. "

Sebastian Thrun

Intelligence

Brain

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. "

" 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. "

" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

" The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain. "

" At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes. "

" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "

Sebastian Thrun

Everyone

Feel

" There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you. "

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

" If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice? "

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

" Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. "

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

" My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so. "

" You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems. "