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
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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
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I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
If it was only for the military, I wouldn't be here today.
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I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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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 always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
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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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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 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 honestly believe that the impact of this and other things related to self-driving cars could turn out to be more fundamental to mankind than the invention of the internet,
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In the past, someone would look at a problem, write some code, test it, improve it by hand, test it again and so on. The problem is, software is becoming larger and larger and less and less manageable. So there's a trend to make software that can adapt itself. This is a really big item for the future.
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I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.
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I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.