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" 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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" I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars. "

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Driving

" 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. "

" Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time. "

" Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves. "

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

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

" Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation. "

" You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio. "

" If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet. "

Sebastian Thrun

Wonderful

People

" In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. "

" I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.' "

" I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody. "

" 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. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Intelligence

Brain

" I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea. "

" This is the age of disruption. "

Sebastian Thrun

Disruption

Age

" You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence. "

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

" I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures. "

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

" I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position. "

Sebastian Thrun

Position

Myself

" 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. "

" We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world. "

" 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. "

" I can give my love of learning to other people. "

" As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that. "

Sebastian Thrun

Time

Lot

" 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. "

" I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year. "

" 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. "

" 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? "