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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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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It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
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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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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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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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That was a turning point in the race.
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I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.
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Last year's teams failed almost exclusively because of software problems,
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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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I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
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I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.