Ray Kurzweil

Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world.

The primary political and philosophical issue of the next century will be the definition of who we are.

The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the nature of the process, or significantly affect the future of the process) expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos.

Sometimes, a deeper order—a better fit to a purpose—is achieved through simplification rather than further increases in complexity.