170 Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.

Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.

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

Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.

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

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

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.

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 and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.