Sebastian Thrun Quotes

I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

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.

At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.

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

People mainly fail because they fear failure.

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

My process is learn, decide, and do. I've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved this way.

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

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That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

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.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

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.

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

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 ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

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

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.