Ray Kurzweil Quotes

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• Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.
• 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 our…
• I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
• Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
• Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.
• The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
• 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 death.
• The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
• What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together…
• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture…
• By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
• 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…
• 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 fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
• When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone…
• As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn't…
• Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
• 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 level…
• We're democratizing the tools of creativity.
• There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

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