"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate." ― Ray Kurzweil Topic(s): Intelligence More From Ray Kurzweil "Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020." "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." "Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it." More In Intelligence "When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years."― Carl Levin "I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."― Antonio Gramsci "Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn’t find them."― Richard Ben-Veniste