Sebastian Thrun

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

— Sebastian Thrun

The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.

— Sebastian Thrun

Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and…

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in…

— Sebastian Thrun

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being…

— Sebastian Thrun

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.

— Sebastian Thrun

Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car…

— Sebastian Thrun

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks…

— Sebastian Thrun

Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which…

— Sebastian Thrun

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the…

— Sebastian Thrun

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it…

— Sebastian Thrun

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves.…

— Sebastian Thrun

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes…

— Sebastian Thrun

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks,…

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.

— Sebastian Thrun

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

— Sebastian Thrun

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

It's a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

Horizontal meetings are team or project meetings, set up to coordinate individual activities. When I worked in a large tech company, those…

— Sebastian Thrun