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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life. "

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" It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world. "

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" I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better. "

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

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

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

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" I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit. "

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

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

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" If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me. "

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