Ray Kurzweil

Citations

• “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.”

• “It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace.”

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

• “The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.”

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