Ray Kurzweil Quotes
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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You go to see movies to feel something, and being terrified - there's something so fun about that.
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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
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For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.
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I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows what their agenda was and what they were trying to do; because I mentioned the Neo-Conservatives who describe themselves as Neo-Conservatives, I was called, Anti-Semitic.
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
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I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
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I just can't get used to life.
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Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted.
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I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
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A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.
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The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little optimistic, actually, but I do make the case that by 2029 we will have very detailed models and simulations of all the different brain regions.
