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Sebastian Thrun is a renowned German-American educator known for his contributions to the fields of machine learning and artificial intelligence. He co-founded the popular online learning platform Coursera and has been instrumental in promoting the普及 of educational technology.

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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.”

Light Taught Higher Aim Experiments Google Playgrounds Aim High

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“The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?”

Ifs Stills Real Self Today Fiction Car Elements Normal Standards Hollywood Science Fiction Driving Real Life What If Defining 1960s Knights Riders Science Fiction Movie Driving Cars

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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.”

Humans Looks Generations Car Ridiculous Driving Looking Forward Driving Cars

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“Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.”

Ifs Feels Persons I Can Failing Standards Guilt Quitting Disappointed

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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 subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.”

People Want Bigs Belief Numbers Technology Fans Planets Faster Empowering Entity Subservient Really Deep

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“I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.”

World Trying Has Beens Self Reality Turns Fiction Class Team Car Science Fiction Spending Driving Engineers Google World Class Professional Life Driving Cars

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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 being with myself and observing myself and learning something.”

My Own Love Is Weight Spending Climbing Really Great Observing Me Alone Present Day Spending Time Alone Time Spending Time Alone

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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 time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.”

Knows Feels Years Two Bigs Passion Lost Hours Loses Car Add Stuck Lots Of Money Traffic My Passion Stuck In Traffic

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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.”

Way Should Problem Moon Shots Areas Should Have Importance Flight Assumption Flew

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“Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.”

Needs Looks Self Done Car Spread Driving Suburbs Parking Driving Cars

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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.”

People Way Needs Feels Years Humans Dies Technology

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“At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.”

Ends Values Employment The End Of The Day Propositions True Value

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“You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.”

World Certain Break Amount Healthy Changing The World Willingness Can't Change

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“The Inventor Of Google Glass Says It Could Outsource Our Brains”

Brain Glasses Google Inventor Google Glass

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“In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.”

World Years Higher Shots Institutions Delivering Higher Education

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

Strong Authority Including Gravity Disrespect

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“If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”

Ifs Humans Happens Chance Brain Study Students Revolution Driven Technique Data Professors Engineers Reverse Rumor Medieval Student Success Human Brain Tailors Data Science

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“My process is learn, decide, and do. I've never seen a problem that couldn't be solved this way.”

Way Problem Process

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“Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.”

Ability Car No Brainer

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“People mainly fail because they fear failure.”

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About the Author

Born: May 14, 1967
Known for: Educator
Quotes: 20

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