People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
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… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious… Does it… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share
