Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Sebastian Thrun - Page 2

Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.

I am a really impatient person who wants to see many issues fixed with solutions that don't yet exist.

In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it.

The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.

Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning.

You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.

When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big catalog, and start reading the child all these individual rules from A to Z. When we raise a child, a lot of what we do is let the child experiment and guide the experimentation. The child basically has to process his own data and learn from experience.

We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.

There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting better faster than human journalists are.

Many of us are inspired and are eager to get things done. But once too many people are involved, life becomes complicated. We are all social beings, so we have an innate urge to incorporate everyone's thoughts.

Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.

There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.

Millions of Americans are denied the privilege of driving on health grounds.

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.

This is the age of disruption.

I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.

I can give my love of learning to other people.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those meetings just popped up in my calendar by the dozen.

Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.

With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.

There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things that are easy to say but hard to do. The fix is: abandon all recurring meetings. I am serious. All!

You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.

Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market.

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.

I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.

No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.

Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.

My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.

There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence.

Innovation means change.

You can learn for your own sake, and that's fine, but if you come to Udacity, you learn because you want someone else to understand what you learned.

What I see is democratizing education will change everything.

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.

I've always believed that human learning is the result of relatively simple rules combined with massive amounts of hardware and massive amounts of data.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible.

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.

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.

I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.

The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.