169 Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

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.

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.

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

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

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

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

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.