Ray Kurzweil

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our…

— Ray Kurzweil

By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

— Ray Kurzweil

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

— Ray Kurzweil

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

— Ray Kurzweil

“it took ninety years to achieve the first MIPS per thousand dollars; now we add one MIPS per thousand dollars every five…

— Ray Kurzweil

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

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about…

— Ray Kurzweil

Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

— Ray Kurzweil

I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know…

— Ray Kurzweil

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets…

— Ray Kurzweil

New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating…

— Ray Kurzweil

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

As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding)…

— Ray Kurzweil

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans…

— Ray Kurzweil

“The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and…

— Ray Kurzweil

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

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have…

— Ray Kurzweil

“Electronic circuits are millions of times faster than our biological circuits. At first we will have to devote all of this speed…

— Ray Kurzweil

What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the…

— Ray Kurzweil

When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in…

— Ray Kurzweil

We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow…

— Ray Kurzweil

“To compare the rate of progress of the biological evolution of intelligence to that of technological evolution, consider that the most advanced…

— Ray Kurzweil

Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has…

— Ray Kurzweil

“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron…

— Ray Kurzweil

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

— Ray Kurzweil

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what…

— Ray Kurzweil

“One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human…

— Ray Kurzweil

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

— Ray Kurzweil

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

— Ray Kurzweil

So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside…

— Ray Kurzweil

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on…

— Ray Kurzweil

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c)…

— Ray Kurzweil

“The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the pace of change of our human-created technology is accelerating and its powers…

— Ray Kurzweil

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to…

— Ray Kurzweil

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up…

— Ray Kurzweil

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll…

— Ray Kurzweil

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers…

— Ray Kurzweil

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector…

— Ray Kurzweil

“Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen…

— Ray Kurzweil

[In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we…

— Ray Kurzweil