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Ray Kurzweil Inspirational Quotes (47)

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The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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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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Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.
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Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.
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Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.
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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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When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.
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The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.
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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.
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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.
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Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
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Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.
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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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A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.
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It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.
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Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
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The past is over the present is fleeting we live in the future.
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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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By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality.
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As we gradually learn to harness the optimal computing capacity of matter, our intelligence will spread through the universe at (or exceeding) the speed of light, eventually leading to a sublime, universe wide awakening.
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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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The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.
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In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.
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