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.
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea.
At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it.
Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.
I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.
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.
We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
I can give my love of learning to other people.
When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
I really believe that we have to work hard to make online education better and better, and eventually it's going to be really great. But like most of these things, it takes time to improve, to understand and to make things really good.
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.
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.
I have learned, if you give a team a budget, then the team tries to maximise the budget so that they get the same next year.
You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
My take is that A.I. is taking over. A few humans might still be 'in charge,' but less and less so.