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've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of ti...

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I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.

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I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

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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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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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I generally believe people should be data savvy, and we should teach statistics in high school... and the reason is the world today really revolves around analytics... So the ability to think data, the ability to speak data, to understand the power o...

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It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

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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 ...

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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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Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

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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 ...

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I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

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Author Bio

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