Ray Kurzweil

“Aging is not one process. It's many different things going on that cause us to age. I have a program that at least slows down each of these different processes.”

“If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. We'd like the computers to actually pick up on that semantic meaning.”

“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.”

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

“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.”

“A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.”

“By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.”

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

“Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.”

“All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.”

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

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