Jason Silva Quotes

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.

I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we've made.

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

A society without civil, political, and property rights may indeed find it difficult to innovate innovation outside the military sector, but it often has a relatively easy time adopting technologies that have already been developed elsewhere.

Technology is a wonderful thing if you are putting it to use, less so if it is putting an end to your usefulness.

IT put India on the map of the world and told Indians that they are somebody in the world. There is something about technology that is very empowering: 'We are designing software for the best companies in the world.'

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

We can trust technology to effect change - that's a given.

If you don't stay up with technology, you're gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.