A biography for Bryan Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I grew up in this Mormon household where I was told there's a God and this God has a plan and if you obey the rules of this God, you get this amazing afterlife. It was an amazing deal, so I obeyed the rules. As I grew older, I decided I don't know if I believe this anymore.”
“Kernel and OS Fund are a departure from my previous experience. I have no formal scientific training and before these endeavors, I'd never been exposed to any scientific pursuit.”
“Of anything in existence, the brain will determine the future of the human race, and it hides in plain sight.”
“Imagination is one of our most useful and pleasurable cognitive tools, but it is not perfect. It extends our reach away from the present, away from the past, and into the future, but it can be frequently and disastrously wrong at times.”
“For humanity to flourish, we'll need to roll up our sleeves, with tools of creation in hand, and get to work. The future will not write itself.”
“A $4 houseplant is one of the most astonishing objects ever assembled. It's a biodegradable, carbon-capturing, self-replicating, solar-powered work of art.”
“The quicker we can make radically improving our brains the single highest priority of the human race, the more effective we will be to work on everything else we care about.”
“Seeing beyond what's possible is a rare skill. Being able to design and build beyond what's possible is even more rare.”
“We are fundamentally a future-planning species - sadly, more for ourselves and less for future generations.”
“One way to go about revolution is not trying to change the system within, but trying to build a new system.”
“I have to say 'no' so many times to people asking me to participate in various projects. I have to do it to stay focused but I really regret that. I wish I had more time to give to others.”
“My proposition is that as entrepreneurs and investors, rather than focusing on doing good with technology, let's instead focus on building good technology.”
“The only thing we get for free in life is our existence. How we spend our life points is the most precious question of all.”
“I feel fortunate to live in a time when a formerly unimaginable possibility of predictably programming the atoms comprising our existence is now within reach.”
“Being able to program and print new molecules opens up new worlds of possibility, in more ways than we can even imagine.”
“Everything we are, everything we aspire to be, every problem we want to solve, every opportunity we want to pursue - it all begins with the brain. It is the master tool and the master of all tools.”
“In its varied forms - from the mysterious brains of octopuses and the swarm-minds of ants to Go-playing deep learning machines and driverless-car autopilots - intelligence is the most powerful and precious resource in existence.”
“Personally, I have always thought that anything that would help us all live longer, healthier lives is a good technology. But what I consider to be 'good' differs from what others do - sometimes significantly.”
“Running more than one company requires my decision-making scales to expand and contract accordingly. Is that helpful for both companies? Probably. Is that optimal for an individual brain? For me it has been. I've found it thrilling and enlightening.”
“I was raised within a belief system that taught me the world was fixed, predestined to evolve along a certain path. My responsibility was to play by the rules, not become a creator of them.”