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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Everyone has to place a bet down on speed.
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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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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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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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It won't be a very fast drive going from San Francisco to Los Angeles ? it might just drive 55 mph, it won't go 90 like everybody else does in California.
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It went exactly as I had predicted. I knew exactly how it would react.
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Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
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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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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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This car, to me, is really a piece of history.
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I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'
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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.