Inspirational figures (35 person items)""I quickly realized that you had to have a good idea of the future if you were going to succeed as an inventor."― Ray Kurzweil "The power of ideas to transform the world is itself accelerating."“This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.” Ray Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google. He is involved in fields such as optical "
