Ray Kurzweil Quotes

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.
By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.
I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.
Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.
I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.
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