Sebastian Thrun

“When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.”

“As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.”

“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.”

“The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.”

“I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.”

“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.”