Sebastian Thrun Quotes

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Sebastian Thrun

Profession : Scientist

Birth : May 14, 1967

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

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Almost everything interesting hasn't been invented yet.

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I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

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The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.

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People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me is that today, a billionaire or head of state on their smartphone has the same direct access to information as a homeless person has on a smartphone - or a person in Bangladesh or Papua New Guinea.

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There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.

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There are few moments in my life where I really remember what I was doing.

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I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.

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

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

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