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Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning. (Ray Kurzweil)
Does God exist? Well, I would say, 'not yet'. View quote
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The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear. View quote
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Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge. View quote
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We're democratizing the tools of creativity. View quote
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Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. View quote
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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. View quote
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By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our retina, providing full-immersion virtual reality, augmented real reality. We'll be interacting with virtual personalities. View quote
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction. View quote
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By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing, providing full-immersion visual virtual reality. View quote
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In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic. (Ray Kurzweil)
If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030. View quote
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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. View quote
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The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish. View quote
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So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years. View quote
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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. View quote
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Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment. View quote
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The speed and density of computation have been doubling every three years (at the beginning of the twentieth century) to one year (at the end of the twentieth century), regardless of the type of hardware used. ...Despite many decades of progress since the first calculating equipment was used in the 1890 census, it was not until the mid-1960s that this phenomenon was even noticed (although Alan Turing had an inkling of it in 1950). View quote
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