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
years world shots
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.
healthy world break
You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.
data brain rumor
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.
guilt quitting failing
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.
car looks generations
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.
car ability no-brainer
Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.
people failing
People mainly fail because they fear failure.
technology years people
We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
the-end-of-the-day employment ends
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment,
real knights self
The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?
team reality self
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.
easily lucky red truth
The truth is, we were lucky to win, and Red could have easily won.