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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so. "

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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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" It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves. "

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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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" 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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" Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place. "

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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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" In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation. "

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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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" I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist. "

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

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

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" Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. "

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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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" Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries. "

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