“ You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life. Clyde DeSouza
“ Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code? David Pearce
“ You know, the aspirants believe this is the only true existence. That everything outside is an illusion, a shadow play created by the ancestor gods to cradle us until we can build our own tailored rea… Richard K. Morgan
“ I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future FM-2030
“ A lot of people recoil from the word "drugs" - which is understandable given today's noxious street drugs and their uninspiring medical counterparts. Yet even academics and intellectuals in our societ… David Pearce
“ A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize. Tsutomu Nihei
“ Nature is crooked. I wanted right angles and straight lines. Ice! Oh, why do they all drip? You cut yourself opening a can of tuna fish and you die. One puncture in your foot and your life leaks out t… Paul Theroux
“ Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years FM-2030
“ The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real questions facing us is not 'What do we wa… Yuval Noah Harari
“ Technology isn’t what makes us “post-human” or “transhuman,” as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It’s what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our… Nicholas Carr
“ It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion and desire and impotence and sickness of the body, cowering in the darkening shadow of its… Mark O'Connell
“ I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across Texas in a great mobile metaphor for the inevitable decline of all things, the disintegration of all… Mark O'Connell
“ It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge. Clyde DeSouza
“ I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of P… Julian Huxley
“ Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned. Clyde DeSouza
“ I saw them do it. Chip vandals. Right there on Commerce, behind the main road...They cut his head open. They know I watched. Anna L. Davis
“ You should get more sleep," he remarked. "You won't need so many chemicals."She raised an eyebrow. "This from the man with half his bloodstream registered in the patent office." Jovellanos hadn't had… Peter Watts
“ Come now, Tichy. For half a century civilization hasn't been left to its own devices. A hundred years ago a certain Dior was dictating fashions in clothing. Today this sort of regulating has embraced… Stanislaw Lem
