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born 1948 United States

Ray Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments.

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The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

As intelligence saturates the matter and energy available to it, it turns dumb matter into smart matter.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

Creating an avatar of this sort is one way of embodying that information in a way that human beings can interact with. It is inherently human to transcend limitations.

Ultimately, the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence...This is the destiny of the universe.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

To this day I remain convinced of this basic philosophy: no matter what quandries we face...there is an idea that can enable us to prevail.

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2005)

A primary reason that evolution—of life-forms or technology—speeds up is that it builds on its own increasing order.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

We use one stage of technology to create the next stage, which is why technology accelerates, why it grows in power.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

Sometimes, a deeper order—a better fit to a purpose—is achieved through simplification rather than further increases in complexity.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

Neither noise nor information is predictable.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

One of the advantages of being in the futurism business is that by the time your readers are able to find fault with your forecasts, it is too late for them to ask for their money back.

I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

The basic feasibility of communicating in both directions between electronic devices and biological neurons has already been demonstrated.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle.

The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ray Kurzweil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.