Jason Silva

“There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.”

“iphone therefore I am.”

“I design therefore I become.”

“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 just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.”

“Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the 'adjacent possible.' We didn't stay in the caves. We didn't stay on the planet, and soon we won't stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet.”

“Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.”

“If you use it intelligently, Twitter can be a form of engineered serendipity.”

“Imagination allows us to conceive of delightful future possibilities, pick the most amazing one, and pull the present forward to meet it.”

“I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.”

“I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.”

“I've built a network that curates interestingness. In my universe, it encompasses thousands and thousands of filters and people, each person being a filter. So it's kinda cool. Like I've created my own utopia, removing the boring stuff and showing only the amazing stuff.”

“I was at the University of Miami, and I still had, like, a semester or so left. And through the film school, I found out that Al Gore was launching a new TV network; they were looking for passionate young storytellers to transform television, which was, like, ambiguous but magnificent-sounding.”

“I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.”

“Ideas are powerful because they allow us to see the world as it could be, rather than what it is.”

“We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.”

“Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.”

“We must not be afraid to push boundaries; instead, we should leverage our science and our technology, together with our creativity and our curiosity, to solve the world's problems.”

“The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.”

“As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.”

“I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.”