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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It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
If it was only for the military, I wouldn't be here today.
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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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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 really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.
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As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.
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Any vision that we have for self-driving cars must address driving in traffic.
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The military are interested in more potent weapons, and by itself that's a bad answer.
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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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If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?
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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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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.
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I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.