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Ray Kurzweil Quotes

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Ray Kurzweil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 12, 1948

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Science People Conflict Tools Reach

If I can inspire one person to actually administer change, to want to inspire change, I will follow that person.

John David Washington

Change Inspire I Can Person Want

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

Mia Love

I Am Game Target Know Say Going

I have this horrible weakness. I fall in love with my characters. 'Suspect' started as a one-shot, but I just love Maggie so much, and I love Maggie and Scott and what they have going.

Robert Crais

Love Weakness Fall Started Going

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.

Rudy Rucker

Science Thought Nice Science Fiction

What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.

Ronnie Dunn

People Feedback You React Virtue

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Jonathan Sacks

Technology Power World Help Know Us

Even in America, we're not a huge act by any means, Major Lazer.

Diplo

America Act Even Means Major Any

I find that it's really important for me to imagine characters and situations. That allows me a lot of freedom.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Freedom Me Find Important Imagine

Strike and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary.

Christian Slater

Success Struggle Strike Dictionary

I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Care Doing You Play Spirit Right

I do feel Scottish in some way. Maybe it's to do with visiting my grandparents here every summer as a child, but I am aware of my Scottish ancestry. It's there all right, but it would be pushing it to label me a Scottish painter. Or, indeed, an anywhere painter.

Peter Doig

I Am Child Me Feel Summer Way

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Noam Chomsky

Progress Someone Physics Complicated