Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.
Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.
When you look at women who have had plastic surgery, they have lost something - usually an expression, something unique to their face.
I'm so tired of cyberpunk that says using machines to make your life better makes you less human.
We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.
I'm sure some of you are wondering whether my breasts are real. Let me just explain to you. This one is, this one isn't.
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.
I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.
Cyborg doesn't need to eat or sleep, and whenever he encounters an issue that he's not initially equipped to handle, his technology can transmogrify and immediately adapt to that situation.
Even though sugar was very expensive, people consumed it till their teeth turned black, and if their teeth didn't turn black naturally, they blackened them artificially to show how wealthy and marvelously self-indulgent they were.
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.
I'm not a fan of fillers at all. If you've gone 35 or 40 years without big lips, I don't think it's time to start plumping them up artificially.
There's a great desire for people to alter themselves, but it's also the art of transformation. 'I want a bigger butt; I want bigger boobs.' The artifice interests me - how we're capable of altering ourselves. There's a creative element that's very intriguing.
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
Techno-humanism aims to amplify the power of humans, creating cyborgs and connecting humans to computers, but it still sees human interests and desires as the highest authority in the universe.
It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.
The truth is that we have no idea what the long-term effects of any artificial enhancement may be. Will our brains be able to withstand running at artificially heightened capacity?
You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.
If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.
In special effects, you can cheat to make it look good. In real science, you have to have results.
I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.'
It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
You don't want to try to look younger, because you'll look wrong. You dye your hair, you look wrong. You wear a bad toupee, you look wrong. You wear makeup to hide things, you get your eyes done, you look wrong.
