"Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even……" — Ray Kurzweil
"Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're afraid to really stretch."
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68 Quotes by Ray Kurzweil
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Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.
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By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will…
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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were…
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Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People's needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target…
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The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
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Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are…
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
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What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways…
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Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and…
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but…
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