A biography for Sebastian Thrunhasn’t been written yet.
“The idea of 'interview-less hiring' is new and a trend we will see in the changing global job market.”
“There is enormous value in face to face interaction.”
“Flipkart is one of the most innovative companies in the way it approaches the market.”
“The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.”
“There's almost no problem that can't be solved. That's important as a premise. History has proven it over and over again.”
“Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.”
“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 information, scientific technology, and information out of the human brain.”
“Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.”
“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 could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.”
“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.”
“We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.”
“I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.”
“Innovation means change.”
“As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.”
“When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.”
“You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.”
“I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.”
“You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.”
“With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.”
“Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education.”