“ 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 so… Sebastian Thrun
“ You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to understanding and predicting the environment is a Holy Grail of artificial intelligence. Sebastian Thrun
“ As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence. Sebastian Thrun
“ To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions. Sebastian Thrun
“ Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed. Sebastian Thrun
“ We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us,… Sebastian Thrun
“ Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. Sebastian Thrun
“ Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity. Sebastian Thrun
“ 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
“ I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. Sebastian Thrun
“ 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… Sebastian Thrun
“ The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written in a different form and replicable. What it really does is it allows us to replicate cultural infor… Sebastian Thrun
“ 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, philosop… Sebastian Thrun
