Sebastian Thrun Quotations

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.

In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.

If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.

Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

If we could do away with traffic accidents, that'd be wonderful. There'd be more than a million people saved every year on this planet.

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

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.

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