Editing Ray Kurzweil (section)

===Praise===

Kurzweil was called "the ultimate thinking machine" by ''[[Forbes]]'' in 1998<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pfeiffer |first=Eric W. |date=April 6, 1998 |title=Start Up |url=https://www.forbes.com/asap/1998/0406/017_print.html |access-date=2024-11-17 |website=Forbes}}</ref> and a "restless genius" by ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' in 1989.<ref name="Bulkeley A3A">{{cite news |last=Bulkeley |first=William |date=June 23, 1989 |title=Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |page=A3A}}"Among the leaders is Kurzweil, a closely held company run by Raymond Kurzweil, a restless 41-year-old genius who developed both optical character recognition and speech synthesis to make a machine that reads aloud to the blind."</ref> [[PBS]] included him as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America", along with other inventors of the past two centuries.<ref name="Who Made America">{{cite web |title=Who Made America? |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/innovators_hi.html |access-date=February 9, 2013 |publisher=[[PBS]]}}</ref> ''[[Inc. (magazine)|Inc.]]'' magazine ranked Kurzweil eighth among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the U.S. and called him "Edison's rightful heir".<ref name="26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs">{{cite magazine |title=26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs |url=http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050401/26-index.html |magazine=Inc. |access-date=February 9, 2013}}</ref> [[Bill Gates]] called him "the best at predicting the future of artificial intelligence".<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 8, 2005 |title=CNN.com – Gates: Get ready for chip implants – Jul 4, 2005 |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/07/04/gates.implants.ap/ |access-date=2022-09-01 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050708012222/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/07/04/gates.implants.ap/ |archive-date=July 8, 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>