In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Sili...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I take all day to climb mountains and then spend about 10 minutes at the top admiring the view.
SEBASTIAN THRUN I envision a future without traffic accidents or congestion. A future where everyone can use a car.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.
SEBASTIAN THRUN I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in aca...
SEBASTIAN THRUN In much of computer science, I can easily 'auto-grade' your work and give you an instant mea...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
SEBASTIAN THRUN It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failu...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun.
SEBASTIAN THRUN When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.
SEBASTIAN THRUN When you raise a child, you don't sit down and take all the rules of life, write them into a big...
SEBASTIAN THRUN It's sad that we never get trained to leave assumptions behind.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I lo...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipli...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Corporate America is drowning in meetings. To make one thing clear, I am not against communication. ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN No state in the U.S. expressly forbids autonomous driving.
SEBASTIAN THRUN The individualization of learning fundamentally redefines the role of assessment.
SEBASTIAN THRUN To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative ex...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1...
SEBASTIAN THRUN This is the age of disruption.
SEBASTIAN THRUN I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
SEBASTIAN THRUN The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just l...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that's a wonderful thing. But higher educ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN People complain about the rich-and-poor divide. It's crazy, no doubt about it. But what gets me ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a l...
SEBASTIAN THRUN If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN You could claim that moving from pixelated perception, where the robot looks at sensor data, to unde...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I used to tell my graduate students at Stanford, 'Don't worry about what job you have to pic...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student populati...
SEBASTIAN THRUN At the end of the day, the true value proposition of education is employment.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.
SEBASTIAN THRUN With any new medium, the full power is only unearthed with experimentation.
SEBASTIAN THRUN As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Less than one percent of U.S. college students attend Ivy League schools, and these students don'...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the m...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.
SEBASTIAN THRUN I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affo...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I don't think we will put higher-ed out of business. I think we'll evolve it. More access, h...
SEBASTIAN THRUN With the right care at the right time, a huge number of people could stay independent much longer, w...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admi...
SEBASTIAN THRUN You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN There will be no more one-size-fits-all. Education will respond to you.
SEBASTIAN THRUN Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence.
SEBASTIAN THRUN There are already robotic journalists. Sure, they aren't very good, but they're getting bett...
SEBASTIAN THRUN Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really...
SEBASTIAN THRUN The biggest invention of modern time is the book. The book is a digital medium; book text is written...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I l...
SEBASTIAN THRUN In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN We should have lifelong monitoring of our vital signs that predict things like skin or pancreatic ca...
SEBASTIAN THRUN I am a big fan of putting the intelligence in the cars.
SEBASTIAN THRUN There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring ...
SEBASTIAN BACH I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.
SEBASTIAN STAN I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.
SEBASTIAN COE There are some things that you can fulfil with money, but at the end of the day these are not the th...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL We have an inner window through which we can see the world, and though it gets cloudy in life, it...
SEBASTIAN KOCH I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I ...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitel...
SEBASTIAN STAN That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond d...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport v...
SEBASTIAN COE Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Stripped to its essence, combat is a series of quick decisions and rather precise actions carried ou...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony o...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Most firefights go by so fast that acts of bravery or cowardice are more or less spontaneous. Soldie...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the sh...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over th...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in ord...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
SEBASTIAN COE World records are only borrowed.
SEBASTIAN COE The army consists of the first infantry division and eight million replacements.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not ...
SEBASTIAN PINERA The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You ne...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you're young or ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who ha...
SEBASTIAN COE I came here from Romania when I was 12 years old. I had an accent. High school was tough a little bi...
SEBASTIAN STAN I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why a...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I think, politically, I'm pretty left-wing, and I try to be very neutral in my work.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Who wants a life of ease? And who wants a life in the office that you hate, and who wants to play go...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER When you're scared, you're still hanging on to life. When you're ready to die, you let i...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do th...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situat...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousn...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER The Kosovars were granted autonomy at the end of World War II, but then aspiring president Milosevic...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the r...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if yo...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I decided to start a medical training program for freelancers, only freelancers. They're the one...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-en...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to tr...
SEBASTIAN COE Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.
SEBASTIAN COE I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me...
SEBASTIAN STAN Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they'...
SEBASTIAN STAN Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.
SEBASTIAN BACH I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.
SEBASTIAN BACH I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessn...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I'm a Chelsea season-ticket holder, and I've supported them for 37 years, so any judgment of...
SEBASTIAN COE They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their frie...
SEBASTIAN BACH I've never seen a weirder group of people than at the post office. It looks like people are craw...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuf...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my ...
SEBASTIAN STAN Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in f...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I have been working since I was 20, and I'm 38. I actually once averaged out what I had made ove...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but ...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. A...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they ...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifie...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
SEBASTIAN BACH I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23...
SEBASTIAN COE I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Too...
SEBASTIAN BACH I like Las Vegas because it kind of gives me a chance to gauge my material in front of a very divers...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO I go to Vegas now, and I'm in the casino, and I'm gambling, and there's a guy in a wet b...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's abou...
SEBASTIAN COE I used to live in Canada. It's a beautiful country with a lot of different kind of topographic r...
SEBASTIAN BACH Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There...
SEBASTIAN BACH The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurg...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we re...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celeb...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY You have lots of people from around the world contributing new features to it, testing it, fixing bu...
BYRON SEBASTIAN For the first time the support business is a free market. There's competition for who's going to win...
BYRON SEBASTIAN We found this was really what they were thinking about. They don't see those [proprietary applicatio...
BYRON SEBASTIAN Although they thought the functional quality [of open source components] to be very high, they thoug...
BYRON SEBASTIAN The cost of software is going down rapidly, the cost of producing intellectual property is going dow...
BYRON SEBASTIAN It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Trace...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
SEBASTIAN BACH We have to recognise there are very few countries you will take the Games to where somebody doesn...
SEBASTIAN COE I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise...
SEBASTIAN SEUNG I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.
SEBASTIAN PINERA The world wants to be deceived.
SEBASTIAN BRANT As she came up to the arch Elizabeth saw with a start that it was written on. She went closer. She p...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS The world loves to be deceived.
FRANCK SEBASTIAN The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that ba...
SEBASTIAN SEUNG I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record de...
SEBASTIAN BACH Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn&#...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can...
SEBASTIAN COE The track in Abu Dhabi is special; this will be our third Grand Prix there.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you rea...
JOHN SEBASTIAN I developed a knack for storytelling early on around the kitchen table with my family. I just happen...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, an...
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get r...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why y...
SEBASTIAN COE I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced again...
SEBASTIAN COE It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we ...
SEBASTIAN COE From our initial observations, our hard work has paid off. This is a springboard for the next 30 day...
SEBASTIAN COE I can be a bit impatient sometimes. If I'm really focusing on something, I can expect everybody ...
SEBASTIAN COE I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
SEBASTIAN BACH To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him,...
SEBASTIAN COE Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE...
SEBASTIAN COE The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
JOHN SEBASTIAN I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.
SEBASTIAN BACH It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.
SEBASTIAN BACH Nobody wants a fat lead singer.
SEBASTIAN BACH When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the firs...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL I remember my first test in F1. After five laps, I came back to the pits and tried to play it cool -...
SEBASTIAN VETTEL [Overhearing this, the former head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, r...
SEBASTIAN COE I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in inte...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally...
SEBASTIAN COE Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
SEBASTIAN COE I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don'...
SEBASTIAN ROCHE Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled,...
SEBASTIAN COE I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock cl...
SEBASTIAN BACH A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to ...
SEBASTIAN MARINCOLO If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. ...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poetic...
SEBASTIAN BARRY Twitter is the new rock magazine of the modern age. When I was a kid, we had magazines and journalis...
SEBASTIAN BACH I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in ...
SEBASTIAN BARRY Hardware price cuts are necessary not only to drive demand at the end of a console cycle, but also t...
COLIN SEBASTIAN You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get t...
SEBASTIAN STAN I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.
SEBASTIAN PINERA ...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last ...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr...
SEBASTIAN KOCH Well, I did a harmonica instruction tape for Homespun tapes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.
JOHN SEBASTIAN My ideal relationship with the reader is that at certain points they will have said, 'I'm fi...
SEBASTIAN FAULKS I know many people who are actually queasy about the idea that their kids may harbour sporting ambit...
SEBASTIAN COE For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be...
SEBASTIAN KOCH We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government ha...
SEBASTIAN PINERA People really in the meat grinder of the front lines are not, for the most part, insured or salaried...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER