Sebastian Thrun Quotes

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.
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.
As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.
Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.
Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.
Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.
Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market.
Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.
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