Mar 9-13, 2012 Austin
"I’ve always felt like the hippie movement morphed into the silicon valley movement."
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
"Whether it's in entrepreneurship or in romance, the key is timing."
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
"Now that we have completed the Genome… Health and medicine is now an information technology, and will be subject to Moore's Law"
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
"We have 24,000 genes that are our programming—I think they were written in Cobol. " (to laughs).
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
Regarding AI and Siri complaints, tells joke abot woman who compains that though her dog plays chess: "but his end game isn’t very good."
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
"The doubters on genome found 7 yrs to do 1% to be terrible, but I said great… at 1% you are only 7 doublings from 100%. We're almost there."
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
"Promise versus peril has been an issue since the discovery of fire. I don’t see it as us versus them. I see it as us versus us."
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author re dangers of AI and GNR (Genetics, Nanotech, Rbtcs)
"Time triage is one of the most important decisions we make—every moment of our lives. You can make the choice however you want."
~ Ray Kurzweil, Author
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