Ray Kurzweil quotes Best Collection

• I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect.

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  Topics: Me Together Way Toys
• I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

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  Topics: Myself Entrepreneur Inventor Author
• My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

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  Topics: Understanding Mission Language Google
• 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.

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  Topics: You Matter Humanity Your
• People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy from the sunlight.

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  Topics: People Energy True Old
• The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.

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  Topics: Brain Think Will Project
• Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

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  Topics: You Walking Process Software
• We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

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  Topics: Body See Human Human Body
• 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.

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  Topics: World Trends Invention Finished
• We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

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  Topics: Self Things Outside Our
• 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.

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  Topics: New Like Virus Creating
• 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.

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  Topics: Water Energy Dirty Planet
• I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.

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  Topics: World People Culture Think
• 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.

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  Topics: Myself Me Brain People
• Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

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  Topics: Future Reality Information Difference
• Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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  Topics: Humanity Unique Human About
• Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

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  Topics: You People Conflict Sometimes
• Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

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  Topics: Me Great Opportunity Science Fiction
• All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

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  Topics: Art Science Expression Human
• Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

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  Topics: Will Follow Human Reach
• 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.

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  Topics: Will Dangerous Emotional AI
• When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

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  Topics: You Someone Human Talk
• By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.

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  Topics: Will Our Portion
• By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

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  Topics: Nature Change Time Intelligence
• I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

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  Topics: Intelligence Understanding Language
• 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 to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.

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  Topics: You Words Like Something
• By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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  Topics: Intelligence People Will Emotional
• Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

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  Topics: Brain Will Achieve Human Brain