Neil Harbisson Quotes

I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology.

Neil Harbisson

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• Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Better
  • Worst
  • Hello

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Meaning

• Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Never
  • Until
  • Watergate

• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • World
  • Women
  • Live

• I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Practice
  • Two
  • Maybe

• I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Time
  • Giving

• First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Know
  • Said
  • Thank You

• I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Day
  • Friend
  • Mom

• I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

  

  Ian McShane
  • Like
  • Film
  • Successful

• 'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• The FBI and our entire government has become a bureaucracy. Sick, tired, and old as far as technology is concerned. This has to change.

  

  John McAfee
  • Technology
  • Tired
  • Sick

• The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Way
  • Poor

• There's sacrifice involved. Either you're going to work a lot and not get to spend time with your kid, or you're going to spend a ton of time with your kid, and you're sacrificing your career.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Time
  • Work
  • Career

• I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology.

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Technology