“Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.”
- Jason Silva
“We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.”
“The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.”
“Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.”
“Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.”
“We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.”
“Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.”
“I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.”
“If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.”
“As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.”
“There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.”
“I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.”
“I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.”
“I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.”