Ray Kurzweil

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

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.

Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. Peoples needs change so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

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.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

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.

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.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

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 You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies which evolved in a very different era.

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

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.

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 You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

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

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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.

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

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.

Play is just another version of work.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

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.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and thats not a sideshow. Thats the cutting edge of human intelligence.

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

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.

My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google.

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.

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

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

By 2029 computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

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.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.

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.

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.

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.

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.

I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.