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

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.

People mainly fail because they fear failure.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Unleash the force of bliss within you. Radiate your joy no matter what!

A leader learned to follow, and serves the followers who are learning to lead. ~T.F. Hodge

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.