Anthony Levandowski

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning. ”

In 2003, my mom actually gave me a call, which is funny because she works at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium, and let me know that there's a cool competition with robots across the desert. And I thought this was definitely something I wanted to be a part of. This was the first DARPA Grand Challenge. ”

Google was the right place to pioneer robot cars. ”

I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected. ”

When you are Uber, what we care about is the customer experience of getting somebody safely, cheaply, efficiently and reliably from where they are to where they want to go. ”

If you could make something one percent smarter than a human, your artificial attorney or accountant would be better than all the attorneys or accountants out there. You would be the richest person in the world. People are chasing that. ”

If you ask people whether a computer can be smarter than a human, 99.9 percent will say that's science fiction. Actually, it's inevitable. It's guaranteed to happen. ”

In 2008, no one else would ever have believed me that we were going to make a car actually drive everywhere, all the time. ”

Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways. ”

I like incremental improvements or at least seeing where you're going to go and really being able to understand what's feasible at the time. ”