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" When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all. "

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" Innovation means change. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules. "

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

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

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

" I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view. "

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

" Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely. "

" Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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