Sebastian Thrun Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.”