No matter what problem you encounter, whether it's a grand challenge for humanity or a personal problem of your own, there's an idea out there that can overcome it. And you can find that idea.
Ray KurzweilRead
When I was a student at MIT, we all shared one computer and it took up a whole building. The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful. What now fits in your pocket 25 years from now will fit into a blood cell and will again be millions of times more cost effective.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the exponential growth of technology and its increasing accessibility over time.
Ray Kurzweil's quote reflects on the remarkable advancements in computing power and cost-effectiveness that have occurred over the past few decades. He illustrates how a powerful computer, once confined to an entire building, has become a portable device in our pockets today, forecasting even greater miniaturization and efficiency in the future. This underlines the rapid evolution of technology and invites us to consider the possibilities that lie ahead.
Themes
TechnologyAdvancementComputingInnovationFuture
In practice
Example use cases
During a tech conference to illustrate the progress of computer technology.
More from Ray Kurzweil
All quotes →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.
Ray KurzweilRead
When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.
Ray KurzweilRead
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
Ray KurzweilRead
I'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
Ray KurzweilRead
So what used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket, what fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years.
Ray KurzweilRead
Similar quotes
Silicon Valley today is populated mostly by people who would consider themselves winners of the traditional race. This causes the exclusion of the voices that are vital to a round, robust society. It's beyond gentrification.
Chris SaccaRead
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
Don DelilloRead
For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.
Sundar PichaiRead
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.
Riz AhmedRead
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.
Alan TuringRead
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
Edward TufteRead