I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have all of these do it yours….

We have always dovetailed our cognition to our tools, but when our tools start dovetailing back, where do I end and where does the tool begin? It is ….

For me, its always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I ….

The phone is gonna disappear. Maybe it will be a bracelet. After the bracelet it will be a blood cell sized device that maybe gets installed. We alre….

It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're af….

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits..

We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitatio….

There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity..

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try..

Consciousness, when its unburdened by the body, is something thats ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and thats the meta-nature of our cons….

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe..

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story..

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities..

Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is..

Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contrac….

A young person in Africa with a smartphone has more communications technology than the U.S. president had 25 years ago. So if the tools to change the….

I think it would be nice to have a guilt free possibility to act out all kinds of sexual fantasies... So that I think is appealing. And today the onl….

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair..

Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it..

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate..

Everything that we design is designing us back.