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 find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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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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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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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.
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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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You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.
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Extrapolate two, three or four years out, and then let your imagination play.
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We have done the impossible. People said: 'Give up it's not possible', but we did it.
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We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
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None of us think about a world where all the cars are automated all the time. It could take society 20 years to adopt the technology.
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Last year's teams failed almost exclusively because of software problems,
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It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
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That was a turning point in the race.
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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.