“The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be p...” — Sebastian Thrun Quote

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.

If you focus on the single question of who knows best what students need in the workforce, it's the people already in the workforce. Why not give industry a voice?

Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

The dishwasher is the best invention in the world, I didn't grow up with one so it's my prize possession in the kitchen!

I'm the guy that was a dishwasher, the guy who flipped burgers, the guy who did everything you can think of to make money for my family.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

They say, 'We will give you money, but we want you to play this or that.' And I always thought, 'If I'm going to do that, I might as well go back and be a dishwasher.'