Jason Silva Quotes

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

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, well move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate.

To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.

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

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

Everything that we design is designing us back

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

For me, its 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.

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.

Awe is the best drug in the world

We didn't stay in the caves. We haven't stayed on the planet. With biotechnology, gene sequencing, we are not going to even stay within the limitations of biology.

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

I think in a way, what it is to be human is to transcend our boundaries. That is the human story.

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

If you could download the entire universe in two minutes, would you?

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

Post-Scarcity Age, you don't pay for things. Abundance.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

The idea that we are the gods now, and we are doing things that our ancestors think are god-like is not a rhetorical question. You know what I mean? We really are as gods.

My background is in like short form digital media, I call myself more of a digital filmmaker than anything else.

That's the case with these exponential technologies; our brains, they struggle with it. We live in a world that is global and exponential, and our brains evolved in a world that was linear and local.

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

I design therefore I become.

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

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

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.

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.