Quotes from Ray Kurzweil

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.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

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.

I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

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.

If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

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.

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.

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

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

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.

Time would become meaningless if there were too much of 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.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

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.

The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.

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.

Life expectancy is a statistical phenomenon. You could still be hit by the proverbial bus tomorrow.

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.