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The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating.
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The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.
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The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.
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Once a computer achieves human intelligence it will necessarily roar past it.
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The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
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By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.
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The twentieth century was like twenty years' worth of change at today's rate of change.
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Consciousness becomes a matter of philosophical debate; it's not scientifically reliable.
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The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.
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This... was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.
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I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor.
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We use one stage of technology to create the next stage, which is why technology accelerates, why it grows in power.
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The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.
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A primary reason that evolution—of life-forms or technology—speeds up is that it builds on its own increasing order.
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Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.
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Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
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Sometimes, a deeper order—a better fit to a purpose—is achieved through simplification rather than further increases in complexity.
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This interest in trends took on a life of its own, and I began to project some of them using what I call the Law of Accelerating Returns.
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The basic feasibility of communicating in both directions between electronic devices and biological neurons has already been demonstrated.
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To this day I remain convinced of this basic philosophy: no matter what quandries we face... there is an idea that can enable us to prevail.
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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.
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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.
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If you use conventional data compression on the [human brain's] genome, you get about 23 million bytes (a small fraction of the size of Microsoft Word), which is a level of complexity we can handle.
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We live in a three-dimensional world, and our brains are organized in three dimensions, so we might as well compute in three dimensions.... Right now, chips, even though they're very dense, are flat.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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