Quotes by Jason Silva

About Jason Silva:

Jason Luis Silva is a television personality, filmmaker, and public speaker. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela and now resides in Los Angeles, California and New York City.
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I'm happy to be content-maker as well as curator, so I'm happy to also be a presenter for amazing things.

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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 on...

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I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

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Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.

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Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.

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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.

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There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.

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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.

Jason Silva

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

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We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

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A lot of people go through life thinking that they don't have any control, that life is just happening to them. But that's not true.

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If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

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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 u...

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We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum; we can't see the very small; we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope...

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

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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 m...

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

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Look at the evidence and to be willing to question your own truths, and to be willing to scrutinize things that you hold dearly because that way, that transparency, that self-awareness, will protect you from ever becoming somebody that whose beliefs ...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameJason Silva
  • DescriptionVenezuelan television personality
  • BornFebruary 6, 1982