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" This is the age of disruption. "

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" 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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" Innovation means change. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education. "

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" 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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" 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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" I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct. "

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

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

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" Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth. "

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" 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. "

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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'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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" People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea. "

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" 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. "

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

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" You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned. "

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

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

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