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I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

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

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I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

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Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

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I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.

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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.

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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.

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Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

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If you look at the ability of a self-driving car to stay in the lane and not to speed and keep a good distance to the car in front of you, it actually does better than me.

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

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Sebastian Thrun

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