Sebastian Thrun

I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'

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

Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.