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

— Ray Kurzweil

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.

— Ray Kurzweil

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. During World 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 am 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

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.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Ray Kurzweil

By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billion fold. 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.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

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.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

— Ray Kurzweil