To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. -Sebastian Thrun Science
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. -Sebastian Thrun Amazing
In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant meaningful feedback. I can't do this when it comes to the subtlety of human thought, language, poetry, philosophy. -Sebastian Thrun Poetry
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. -Sebastian Thrun Science
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? -Sebastian Thrun Movies
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. -Sebastian Thrun Fear
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment. -Sebastian Thrun Education
The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment. -Sebastian Thrun Learning
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. -Sebastian Thrun Learning
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. -Sebastian Thrun Computers
I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. -Sebastian Thrun Intelligence
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies. -Sebastian Thrun Attitude
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. -Sebastian Thrun Failure
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. -Sebastian Thrun Intelligence
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. -Sebastian Thrun Education
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. -Sebastian Thrun Intelligence
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? -Sebastian Thrun Car
