Top 10 Neil Harbisson Quotes

British artist and cyborg activist

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Neil Harbisson (born 27 July 1982) is a British-Catalan avant-garde artist and musician, famous for being the first person with a cyborg antenna implant as well as for his solo work.

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If I have problems perceiving a color I don't know who to go to – an opthamologist, a neurologist, or a computer programmer.

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

As quoted in Folha (8 February 2012) "Na Campus Party, artista ciborgue conta como usa olho para ouvir cores"

If salads sounded like Justin Bieber, children would eat more vegetables.

It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain.

Technology is made by humans. If we modify our body with human creations we become more human.

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

There are no white skins, and there are no black skins. Humans skins are of different shades of orange.

I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology.

Beware not to use the future as an excuse to ignore living in the present.