Neil Harbisson Quotes

#1. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.

Robin Hobb

#2. Color is everywhere, so everything has changed. I still can't see color, but I can perceive it. I can experience it in a way that allows me to be a part of this reality, which I was excluded from before. Thanks to the eyeborg, I've made a career by combining music and art.

Neil Harbisson

#3. Just you wait till I tell Mother!

Michael Scott

#4. Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves.

Neil Harbisson

#5. I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.

Rhys Ifans

#6. There's no legal protection for cyborgs. In 2010, I started the Cyborg Foundation to defend our rights. Cyborgs have been kicked out from several places because they are seen as a possible security threat. I've been kicked out from places such as Harrods, Casino Montecarlo, and many supermarkets.

Neil Harbisson

#7. Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

Neil Harbisson

#8. 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

#9. We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

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#10. The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.

Neil Harbisson

#11. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Joan Didion

#12. Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.

Allan Sherman

#13. If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.

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#14. Instead of using technology or wearing technology constantly, we will start becoming technology,

Neil Harbisson

#15. Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.

Jack Gantos

#16. It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

Neil Harbisson

#17. We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body.

Neil Harbisson

#18. When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognized for it.

Neil Harbisson

#19. If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

Neil Harbisson

#20. Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.

Neil Harbisson