The best Quotes by Ray Kurzweil

Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

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.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

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

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

It's fascinating to see how versatile New York City is. It lends itself to being so many different places!

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city.

Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.

In New York City, a lot of people think 'the great outdoors' is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

New York is my favorite city in the world.

I find it hard to relax. I live in New York.

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

New York in spring and autumn is absolutely beautiful, but the winter is absolutely depressing.

Everyone goes on about how Bombay is so similar to New York, so I had see what the big deal was. The bustling crowds are the same, but it's a lot quieter, it's a lot cleaner, and it's not humid. I think the energy is very similar to Bombay.

When I was a kid, this was always my dream: to live in New York.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo and get a Yankees hat.

You can't live in New York City and be the most important person in town; you just can't. There are too many other important people here.

Computers may out-think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

Droids are not good or bad. They are neutral reflections of those who imprint them.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is "The computer is down."

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

Alcohol is for people who can afford to lose a few brain-cells.

They say we only use a fraction of our brain's true potential. Now that's when we're awake. When we're asleep, we can do almost anything.

All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Not a very successful species, these Homo Sapiens, even with such great intelligence. Barely 200,000 years. Alligator has survived 200 million years, with a brain the size of a walnut.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.