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" We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership. "

Sebastian Thrun

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

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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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" 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. "

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" The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment. "

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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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" We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever. "

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

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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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" I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students. "

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" I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. "

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" I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach. "

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" There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again. "

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" There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are. "

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" With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation. "

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

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

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" Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry. "

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" Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking. "

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" Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market. "

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" It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game. "

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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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" It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves. "

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

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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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