In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.

— 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, philosophy.

— Sebastian Thrun

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 something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

— Sebastian Thrun

It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.

— Sebastian Thrun

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.

— Sebastian Thrun

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

— Sebastian Thrun

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

— 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

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.

— Sebastian Thrun

The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.

— Sebastian Thrun