Quotes by Inventors

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. Ray Kurzweil

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

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I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Ray Kurzweil

Myself Entrepreneur Consider Inventor Author

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. Ray Kurzweil

Beginning See Computer Devices Human Human Body Body

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. Ray Kurzweil

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector sets, and for some reason I had the idea that if I put things together just the right way, I could create the intended effect. Ray Kurzweil

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I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago. Ray Kurzweil

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I find it kind of disturbing when people cheer when someone just gets stabbed brutally. Rick Baker

People Kind Find Disturbing Someone Brutally Cheer Gets Just

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor. Rick Baker

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can! Rick Baker

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I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens. Rick Baker

Alien Like Looked Make Always Wanted

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities. Rick Baker

You Eyes Sometimes Think Possibilities See More Like Because Limitations Got Offered Person Legs Breathe Then Creature Two Suit

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways. Rick Baker

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff. Rick Baker

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I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up. Rick Baker

Love Scary Faces How Making Up Just Grew

It's fun doing new things. Rick Baker

New Things New Doing Fun Things

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you. Rick Baker

You Out Take Doing Want Movies Much

I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me. Rick Baker

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I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup. Rick Baker

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