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13 quotes by Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun (born May 14, 1967) is an educator, programmer, robotics developer and computer scientist from Germany. He is CEO and cofounder of Udacity, an institution he cofounded with David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky. He is a Google VP and Fellow, and a part-time Research Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Thrun led development of the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and which has since...
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The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving... →

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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in... →

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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... →

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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.

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

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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.

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Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be... →

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

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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... →

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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year.... →

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

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Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it... →

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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... →

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