Ray Kurzweil Quotes

Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

Life itself is exponential.

Time sometimes passes quite quickly.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

Slow motion gets you there faster.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power.

Let us keep the discoveries and indisputable measurements of physics. But ... A more complete study of the movements of the world will oblige us, little by little, to turn it upside down; in other words, to discover that if things hold and hold together, it is only by reason of complexity, from above.

Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.

No one ever swung too slowly.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.

Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.

Some people will tell you that slow is good - but I'm here to tell you that fast is better.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

Sometimes six and six make a dozen, and sometimes they make a mess

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Not all speed is movement.