169 Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we’re afraid to really stretch.

Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We ‘hallucineren’ eigenlijk de wereld vanuit ons corticale geheugen.

Singularity? It’s a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed.

As you go out to the 2040s, now the bulk of our thinking is out in the cloud. The biological portion of our brain didn’t go away but the nonbiological portion will be much more powerful. And it will be uploaded automatically the way we back up everything now that’s digital.

A machine is as distinctively and brilliantly and expressively human as a violin sonata or a theorem in Euclid. – GREGORY VLASTOS.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. – John von Neumann.

Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won’t have to stay so small.

It needs only to be good enough, which in the case of our species meant a level of intelligence sufficient to enable us to outwit the competitors in our ecological niche.

The lesson of these new insights is that our brain is entirely like any of our physical muscles: Use it or lose it.