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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
Mike Krzyzewski: With me and basketball, it became part of me. First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity. I liked that. "Well, here's Mike, he's a basketball player." That connection was good. It helped me have confidence in other areas, because it wasn't just "Mike," it was "Mike, who is also a good basketball player." So I worked at it, and I really liked it. It became a friend. When I had troubles, I'd go out -- with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize. Your imagination could run wild. I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. It helped me become a much more confident person. It was much more than a game to me, and always has been.
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Mike Krzyzewski
Collegiate Basketball Champion
I met my team, and I told them, "We're going to win," and I looked into their eyes. Then, when they sat on the bench, I looked at them again, I said, "We are going to win." I felt we were connected. Then I asked Grant Hill -- instead of telling him what to do -- I asked Grant, "Can you throw the ball 75 feet?" And he said, "Yes, I'll throw it." And by saying it already, I think he had already done it. In fact, I think if you had interviewed him now, he would say that, "Well, I gave my word that I was going to do it." But if I said, "Grant, you throw it," it would have been me telling him to do something. I asked Christian Laettner, "If they ring you up, can you catch it?" He says, "Coach, if Grant throws it, I'll catch it." All of a sudden, there was that -- some people would call that bravado, or cocky talk, but we had gone from walking off the court scattered, mentally and physically, to now, a minute and a half later, to believing that we were going to win.
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Ray Kurzweil
Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence
We see very powerful trends, and we see that, for example, computer power has been growing exponentially, and people say, "Okay, but Moore's Law's going to come to an end." But in fact, what I've seen is that every time one paradigm comes to an end, we replace it with another one. We've done that already five times in computation. So we can, I think, anticipate enormous power in all of these technologies. What they'll be applied for? We can't imagine all of the innovation that will occur. But I see it as fundamentally a spiritual process. The word God is really an ideal of -- and has been described as -- infinite intelligence, creativity, beauty, love, all-knowing. And what we see in evolution is that intelligence, beauty, creativity grows at an exponential rate and gets greater and greater -- never becomes infinite but becomes enormously more powerful growing exponentially, therefore becoming closer or more God-like, but never really reaching that ideal. So it's moving in that spiritual direction. I see evolution as a spiritual process, and I see technology as the cutting edge of that process. It is the human species which is different from any other species in that other species use tools, but they don't evolve over generations the way ours do, taking the next step in evolution by merging with our technology and continuing to grow in this sort of exponentially accelerating condition.
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Ray Kurzweil
Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil: At age 12 I discovered the computer, which was not as ubiquitous as it is today, but I had opportunity through my uncle to get access to a computer affiliated with New York University, and then discovered the ability of computers to kind of model reality. That was very exciting. You could create the world in a computer, admittedly crudely back then, but I think I sensed the potential to do that, and really re-create any aspect of reality. That has been a theme of my thinking, and I think we'll see that emerge in the 21st century, where it really can re-create our experiences and re-create the world through virtual reality and that'll be the nature of the Web in the 21st century. But I kind of had a hint of that at age 12 and got involved in computer programming, actually did some statistical programming that was distributed sort of as shareware, built a computer back then that was able to do some calculations. Got really interested in pattern recognition, the power of that -- because that's really the heart of human thinking, is how really to recognize patterns -- in high school.
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