Neil Harbisson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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