"The telephone is virtual reality in that you……" — Ray Kurzweil
"The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense."
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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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More Auditory Quotes
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I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
— Joan Halifax
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The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of…
— Will Burtin
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We are not passive exhibitors of visual or auditory or tactile images. We have selves. We have a Me that…
— Antonio Damasio
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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
— Robert Delaunay
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The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television…
— Edward Albee
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Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response…
— Paul Valery
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own…
— Florence Welch
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I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.
— Steven Pinker
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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting…
— Steven Pinker
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Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice." I…
— Kim Harrison
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Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous…
— Oliver Sacks
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