169 Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

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

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

To transcend means to "go beyond," but this need not compel us to an ornate dualist view that regards transcendent levels of reality (e.g., the spiritual level) to be not of this world. We can "go beyond" the "ordinary" powers of the material world through the power of patterns. Rather than a materialist, I would prefer to consider myself a "patternist." It's through the emergent powers of the pattern that we transcend.

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.

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

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

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

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.