Neil Harbisson quotes

“Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology,”
-- Neil Harbisson

Source : "People "will start becoming technology" says human cyborg". Interview with Ross Bryant, www.dezeen.com. November 20, 2013.

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“Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.”
-- Neil Harbisson

Source : "Erik Brynjolfsson: In A Race With Machines, Can We Keep Up?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. April 21, 2017.

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“If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.”
-- Neil Harbisson

Source : "I listen to color". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

“When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.”
-- Neil Harbisson

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“I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t feel that I’m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.”
-- Neil Harbisson

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“I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t feel that I’m wearing technology. I feel that I am technology.”
-- Neil Harbisson

Source : "WATCH: How a Colorblind Cyborg ‘Hears’ Color". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2013.

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“Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.”
-- Neil Harbisson

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“They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet.”

“Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.”

“The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.”

“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”

“Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.”

“The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry, which led to many consumers becoming trapped in loans they didn't understand and couldn't afford.”

“Obviously I was challenged by becoming a Naval aviator, by landing aboard aircraft carriers and so on.”

“You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2016). “Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds”, p.189, Hachette UK

“Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.”

Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

“I'm suggesting that, ironically, the secret to becoming a world 'hyperpower' is tolerance. If you look at history, you see great powers being very tolerant in their rise to global dominance.”