169 Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

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

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.

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

As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up.

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.

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

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

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

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 detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.