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My mission at Google is to de...

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Supercomputers will achieve o...

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

I'm an inventor. I became int...

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 world in which it is started.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

New technologies can be used ...

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

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Science fiction is the great ...

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

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Even by common wisdom, there ...

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 myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

A successful person isn't nec...

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Our technology, our machines,...

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

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

No matter what problem you en...

No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Once we have inexpensive ener...

Once we have inexpensive energy, we can readily and inexpensively convert the vast amount of dirty and salinated water we have on the planet to usable water.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

A lot of movies about artific...

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Play is just another version ...

Play is just another version of work

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

The key issue as to whether o...

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 have feelings?

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Intelligence is: (a) the most...

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Evolution is a process of cre...

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Intuition is linear; our imag...

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.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

We only have to capture 1/10,...

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

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

Death is a great tragedy…a pr...

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.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

To transcend means to "go bey...

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

As order exponentially increa...

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.

Ray Kurzweil 99 quotes

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