Jason Silva Quotes

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• To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
• Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is to create knowledge…
• Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
• I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and say, 'I will…
• Cinema is a technologically mediated dreamspace, a way to access, a portal to the numinous that unfolded in the fourth dimension, so cinema became sort…
• 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.
• Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.
• If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?
• Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.
• Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by…
• Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.
• Awe is the best drug in the world
• Everything that we design is designing us back
• We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.
• The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
• Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
• I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.
• Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is…
• There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted…
• I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.

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