170 Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

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.

When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.

Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher education can't exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.

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

At Udacity, we always strive to make things better and learn from our mistakes.

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

It's my dream to make learning as addictive as a video game.

Innovation means change.