I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.
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.
I like to put myself in the most uncomfortable position.
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 believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For people of all ages and all geographies.
We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought.
Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don't necessarily reflect the world's brightest and most capable thought leaders but, rather, the people who've been afforded the most opportunities to succeed.
The 99 percent should be protesting college campuses.
Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.
Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.
I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pick because your job picks you. Let your job pick you. Find something you are passionate about. Then when you are passionate, be persistent. Just keep doing it for a while because progress is always hard work. It never rests in ideas.'
With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.
Most cars are parked at any point in time; my estimate is that I use my car about three percent of the time.
Many students learn best by doing. But because classrooms force the same pace on all students, they limit the degree to which students can truly learn through trial and error. Instead, lectures still force many students to follow material passively and in lockstep pace.
Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a computer - and possibly our own personality.
With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, with a higher quality of life.
Education used to be a slice of life, something you did as a child through college, and then spent the rest of your life working, and then death. Everything is about to change. I believe education will become something that fits seamlessly into life, and we will take big clunky things like degrees and college and fit them into a weekend.
I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.
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.
Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.
Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
Technology is synonymous for connection with other people.
Because of the increased efficiency of machines, it is getting harder and harder for a human to make a productive contribution to society.
The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.
I've developed my passion for cars that drive themselves from being stuck in traffic for many, many, many hours of my life. I don't know what it adds up to, but I feel like I've lost a year or two just in traffic. That's big to me. That's a lot of time, a lot of money that I just lose on the road.
When you program a robot to be intelligent, you learn a number of things. You become very humble and develop enormous respect for natural intelligence because, even if you work day and night for several years, your robot isn't that smart after all.
We don't live in a world where any job lasts forever.
Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. Quick one-on-ones can be extremely effective. I am talking about those hour-long recurring meetings, devoid of a clear agenda, and attended by many. I dread them.
Self-driving cars will enable car-sharing even in spread-out suburbs. A car will come to you just when you need it. And when you are done with it, the car will just drive away, so you won't even have to look for parking.
I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.
Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.
Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.
You don't lose weight by watching someone else exercise. You don't learn by watching someone else solve problems. It became clear to me that the only way to do online learning effectively is to have students solve problems.
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.
We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.
I love to throw myself into situations where I don't understand everything yet.
Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
Larry Page, co-founder of Google, is an unbelievable big thinker, and there was a saying in Google that if you wanted to know the future, go to Larry.
There's a lot to be learned about how digital media, the ability to reach anybody any time, really transforms the peer interaction experience in education at large.
We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic cancer so we can eradicate it. We should have personalized medicine; there's a huge amount of innovation possible.
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.
I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
Safety has been paramount for the Google self-driving car team from the very beginning.
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 wanted to participate in the political responsibilities of an American citizen. I wanted to vote. I wanted to be a full member of the American community. I made America my home country. It's my identity in many ways.
