Ray kurzweil

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.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very...

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

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