Sebastian Thrun

“I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alon...”

“I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this...”

“Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't...”

“Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.”

“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...”

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

“Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.”