Sebastian Thrun Quotes

German - Scientist | May 14, 1967 -

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.

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Do you know that driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people?

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

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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 for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'

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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.

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Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

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With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.

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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.

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There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

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This is the age of disruption.

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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.

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Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.

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