Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrunis an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 May 1967
CountryGermany
access admirable education hard higher states united
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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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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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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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.
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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
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We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.
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It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.
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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 ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
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Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.
average car driving love minutes people spends
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.
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This is for people who say, 'Cars can't drive themselves,' ... These are the same people who said the Wright brothers wouldn't fly.
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This car, to me, is really a piece of history.
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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.