To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. - Sebastian Thrun 1 Share Now -
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. - Sebastian Thrun 2 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. - Sebastian Thrun 5 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment. - Sebastian Thrun 9 Share Now -
The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment. - Sebastian Thrun 10 Share Now -