Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

About Sebastian Thrun:

Sebastian Thrun is an educator, programmer, robotics developer and computer scientist from Germany. He is CEO and cofounder of Udacity, an institution he cofounded with David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky. He was a Google VP and Fellow, and a part-time Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
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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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I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love b...

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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.

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I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

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If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?

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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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That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.

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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.

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Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

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I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

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It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

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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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If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

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I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

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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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In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

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I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subser...

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Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

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I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameSebastian Thrun
  • DescriptionGerman educator, programmer, robotics developer and computer scientist
  • BornMay 14, 1967
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionComputer Scientist