# Quote — Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines

> It is in the nature of exponential growth that events develop extremely slowly for extremely long periods of time, but as one glides through the knee of the curve, events erupt at an increasingly furious pace. And that is what we will experience as we enter the twenty-first century.

- Author: [Ray Kurzweil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil.md)
- Book: [The Age of Spiritual Machines](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-age-of-spiritual-machines.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines:_When_Computers_Exceed_Human_Intelligence_(1999)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-age-of-spiritual-machines/it-is-in-the

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> A primary reason that evolution—of life-forms or technology—speeds up is that it builds on its own increasing order.

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> Before the next century is over, human beings will no longer be the most intelligent of capable type of entity on the planet.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-kurzweil/the-age-of-spiritual-machines/before-the-next.md)

> Order... is information that fits a purpose.

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