Quotes from Sebastian Thrun

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

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.

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

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

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

I wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

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

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

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

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

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.

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

I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, higher quality, lower costs, more global reach.

I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.

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.

The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.

You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.