Barry Ptolemy Quotes:

I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.

source: - "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

Topics: Teenager, College, Hands, College Years, Reunited

I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers.

source: - "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

Topics: Father, Home, Thinking, Personal Computers

I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.

source: - "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

Topics: Reality, Thinking, Islands, Unyielding, Great Experiences

I think that people talk about radical life extensions as if it is just one linear kind of journey, when actually what's going to happen is we're going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I'm looking forward to things I can't even imagine yet.

source: - Source: bigthink.com

Topics: Journey, Thinking, People

I'd love to live nonbiologically and move about at the speed of light and be in communication with a million people at once and create works of art that are grand and sophisticated and very human at the same time so all these types of things.

source: - "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

Topics: Art, Moving, Communication, Speed Of Light