Ray Kurzweil

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

"Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it."

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

"Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain."