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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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Better

Learn

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

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

" No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving. "

" Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace. "

Sebastian Thrun

Doing

Best

" 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'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. "

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

Sebastian Thrun

Intelligence

Brain

" 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. "

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Society

School

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

" You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned. "

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

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

Sebastian Thrun

Elite

Access

" What I see is democratizing education will change everything. "

" Technology is synonymous for connection with other people. "

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

" 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. "

Sebastian Thrun

Good

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me. "

" People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea. "

" I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet. "

" The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling. "

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

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

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

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

" Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning. "

" Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen. "

" I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road. "