Editing Ray Kurzweil (section)

===Creative approach===
{{see also|Wait calculation}}
Kurzweil has said: "I realize that most inventions fail not because the R&D department can't get them to work, but because the timing is wrong{{nsmdns}}not all of the enabling factors are at play where they are needed. Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment."<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.uakron.edu/president/speeches_statements/?id=c6856afc-067b-40d5-bfc1-ac93f118e3f5| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140419011924/https://www.uakron.edu/president/speeches_statements/?id=c6856afc-067b-40d5-bfc1-ac93f118e3f5| url-status = dead| archive-date = April 19, 2014| title = The University of Akron – Speeches & Statements}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://crnano.org/interview.kurzweil.htm |title=Nanotechnology: Ray Kurzweil Interviewed by Sander Olson|publisher= Center for Responsible Nanotechnology|access-date=September 15, 2014}}</ref> For the past several decades, Kurzweil's most effective and common approach to doing creative work has been conducted during a [[Lucid dream|lucid dreamlike state]] immediately preceding his waking state. He claims to have constructed inventions, solved algorithmic, business strategy, organizational, and interpersonal problems, and written speeches in this state.<ref name="ReferenceA" />