Ray Kurzweil Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.”

“By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.”