170 Quotes by Sebastian Thrun

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

We need to make education so much fun that students can't help but learn.

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

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

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 much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

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.

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.

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.