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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 comfortable with death.

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Ray Kurzweil
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 12
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Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. 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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Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
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The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
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Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.
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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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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 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 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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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?
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The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
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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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Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
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