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

Sebastian Thrun

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

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" Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend. "

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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 should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible. "

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

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" 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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" When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident. "

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" That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality. "

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" 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? "

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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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" Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. "

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

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

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" The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher. "

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" I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car. "

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" There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing. "

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

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" Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. "

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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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