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.
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The problem with cars now is that they spend the vast majority of their time parked in the wrong location so they cannot be used by other drivers,
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You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.
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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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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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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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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.
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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.