Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.
Ray KurzweilThose with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.
Ray KurzweilThe profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.
Ray KurzweilAll of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
Ray KurzweilWhen 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.
Ray Kurzweil