Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrunis an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He was CEO and cofounder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. At Google, he founded Google X. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 May 1967
CountryGermany
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This is for people who say, 'Cars can't drive themselves,' ... These are the same people who said the Wright brothers wouldn't fly.
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I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
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I am a big fan of putting the intelligence in the cars.
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The truth is, we were lucky to win, and Red could have easily won.
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It went exactly as I had predicted. I knew exactly how it would react.
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Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
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I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.
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It's a no-brainer that 50 to 60 years from now, cars will drive themselves,
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It might fundamentally alter the way we use our highways and save trillions of dollars.
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In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.
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In the past, someone would look at a problem, write some code, test it, improve it by hand, test it again and so on. The problem is, software is becoming larger and larger and less and less manageable. So there's a trend to make software that can adapt itself. This is a really big item for the future.
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It is only a matter of time until consumers have self-driving cars.
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Extrapolate two, three or four years out, and then let your imagination play.
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You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.