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1. "Play is just another version of work" ~ Ray Kurzweil
2. "A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet, we experience it almost as if we were there. DuringWorld War II, tens of thousands of people might perish in a battle, and if the public could see it at all it was in a grainy newsreel in a movie theater weeks later. During World War I a small elite could read about the progress of the conflict in the newspaper(without pictures). During the nineteenth century there was almost no access to news in a timely fashion for anyone." ~ Ray Kurzweil
3. "The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron itself, but rather an assembly of neurons, which I estimate to number around a hundred. The wiring and synaptic strengths within each unit are relatively stable and determined genetically—that is the organization within each pattern recognition module is determined by genetic design. Learning takes place in the creation of connections between these units, not within them, and probably in the synaptic strengths of the interunit connections." ~ Ray Kurzweil
4. "Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We 'hallucineren' eigenlijk de wereld vanuit ons corticale geheugen." ~ Ray Kurzweil
5. "Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it." ~ Ray Kurzweil
6. "Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020." ~ Ray Kurzweil
7. "By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate." ~ Ray Kurzweil
8. "We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not." ~ Ray Kurzweil
9. "As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up." ~ Ray Kurzweil
10. "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." ~ Ray Kurzweil
11. "By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people." ~ Ray Kurzweil
12. "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." ~ Ray Kurzweil
13. "I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything." ~ Ray Kurzweil
14. "Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills." ~ Ray Kurzweil
15. "Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings." ~ Ray Kurzweil
16. "The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense." ~ Ray Kurzweil
17. "When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence." ~ Ray Kurzweil
18. "Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era." ~ Ray Kurzweil
19. "I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started." ~ Ray Kurzweil
20. "I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents." ~ Ray Kurzweil
21. "My mission at Google is to develop natural language understanding with a team and in collaboration with other researchers at Google." ~ Ray Kurzweil
22. "What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make." ~ Ray Kurzweil
23. "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." ~ Ray Kurzweil
24. "Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don't accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death." ~ Ray Kurzweil
25. "One cubic inch of nanotube circuitry, once fully developed, would be up to one hundred million times more powerful than the human brain.9" ~ Ray Kurzweil
26. "A thousand-bit quantum computer would vastly outperform any conceivable DNA computer, or for that matter any conceivable nonquantum computer." ~ Ray Kurzweil
27. "Electronic circuits are millions of times faster than our biological circuits. At first we will have to devote all of this speed increase to compensating for the relative lack of parallelism in our computers, but ultimately the digital neocortex will be much faster than the biological variety and will only continue to increase in speed." ~ Ray Kurzweil
28. "GEORGE 2048: We like to think of it as one civilization." ~ Ray Kurzweil
29. "our primate ancestors was the development of a larger cerebral cortex as well as the development of increased volume of gray-matter tissue in certain regions of the brain.32 This change occurred, however, on the very slow timescale of biological evolution and still involves an inherent" ~ Ray Kurzweil
30. "If these biochemical phenomena sound similar to those of the fight-or-flight syndrome, they are, except that here we are running toward something or someone; indeed, a cynic might say toward rather than away from danger. The changes are also fully consistent with those of the early phases of addictive behavior. The Roxy Music song "Love Is the Drug" is quite accurate in describing this state (albeit the subject of the song is looking to score his next fix of love)." ~ Ray Kurzweil
31. "What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure." ~ Ray Kurzweil
32. "Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close." ~ Ray Kurzweil
33. "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." ~ Ray Kurzweil
34. "The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish." ~ Ray Kurzweil
35. "The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work." ~ Ray Kurzweil
36. "Recall the metaphor I used in chapter 4 relating the random movements of molecules in a gas to the random movements of evolutionary change. Molecules in a gas move randomly with no apparent sense of direction. Despite this, virtually every molecule in a gas in a beaker, given sufficient time, will leave the beaker. I noted that this provides a perspective on an important question concerning the evolution of intelligence. Like molecules in a gas, evolutionary changes also move every which way with no apparent direction. Yet we nonetheless see a movement toward greater complexity and greater intelligence, indeed to evolution's supreme achievement of evolving a neocortex capable of hierarchical thinking. So we are able to gain an insightinto how an apparently purposeless and directionless process can achieve an apparently purposeful result in one field (biological evolution) by looking at another field (thermodynamics)." ~ Ray Kurzweil
37. "The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction." ~ Ray Kurzweil
38. "The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA." ~ Ray Kurzweil

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