Sebastian Thrun Quotes

What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Perfection is the child of time.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

The online revolution of education has only just begun. There are two approached to solving educational problems: Government spending and Technology. My bet is on technology.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning.

I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.

The more you do, the more experience you have and the next time it will be easier to choose the right thing.

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.