Sebastian Thrun Quotes

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

Every time you think all the technology that had been created already, all you have to do is look around and then there's someone new who's born with a new idea.

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

We should have more invention.

I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?'

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

A lot of times, you think of things as being science fiction, but the creation of the ideas makes you want to solve them. Then, in solving them, they give us greater capability.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Innovation is the calling card of the future.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Invention breeds invention.