Newton Lee > Quotes

“There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“As the world is increasingly interconnected, everyone shares the responsibility of securing cyberspace.”
― newton lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“Everyone is using science and technology to enhance or to alter our body chemistry in order to stay healthy and be more in control of our lives. We are all transhumanists to varying degrees.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“J. Robert Oppenheimer observed people’s reaction to the use of nuclear weapons and he said, “A few people laughed. A few people cried. Most people were silent.” If we keep silent and sit on the sidelines instead of speaking up and marching forward, human suffering will continue and inevitably escalate.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Direct democracy benefits everyone as long as it does not drown out minority voices.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Whichever form of government that democracy will create in the future, the great American experiment will go down in history as the freest and the bravest in the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“I keep wondering why the Academy decided that they needed a separate category for animated films just at a moment when there are a lot of people who couldn't tell you whether a film is animated or not. - Roy E. Disney”
― Newton Lee, Disney Stories: Getting to Digital

“Every lifelong couple has their own variants of the butterfly dream!”
― Newton Lee

“One of the functions of entertainment, I think, is education. - Roy E. Disney”
― Newton Lee, Disney Stories: Getting to Digital

“Without collaboration and synergy among various communities and socioeconomic groups, democracy will eventually fail as it “wastes exhausts and murders itself,” in the words of America’s founding father John Adams.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“The Transhumanist Party offers the most inclusive ideology for all ethnicities and races, the religious and the atheists, conservatives and liberals, the young and the old regardless of socioeconomic status, gender identity, or any other individual qualities.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.”
― Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”
― Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

“Even a large majority of beautiful music, great literature, and wonderful work of arts depicts human suffering, injustice, fears, and unfulfilled desires.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Journalists should be watchdogs, not lapdogs.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“Transhumanism will save democracy from its demise.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“The enormous amount of financial resources and creative energy that nations have spent on wars and weapons could have been redirected to curing deadly diseases, feeding the hungry, eliminating poverty, promoting art and culture, investing in renewable clean energy, and solving a host of other important challenges facing humanity.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“The useful information for the millions outweighs the privacy of the few.”
― Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

“If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“Ignorance and apathy will eventually lead to the annihilation of humanity if left unchecked.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Whatever fortune or misfortune awaits in the subsequent reincarnations, a purgatory by definition does not last forever. We will be forced to either go backward to the Amish way of life devoid of technology or move forward to a transhumanist world embracing technology.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Modern humanity with some 5,000 years of recorded history has been experiencing growing pains, with no end in sight. It is high time for humanity to grow up and to transcend itself by embracing transhumanism.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“Technological singularity is inevitable given the human nature to discover, create, and change the world that we live in.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“The Transhumanist Party aims to motivate and mobilize both female and male scientists and engineers to take on additional responsibilities as rational politicians. It does not mean replacing democracy with technocracy. It means that our government needs help in making the right policies and investing in science, health, and technology for the improvement of the human condition and the long-term survival of the human race.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.”
― Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

“Had the early cavemen fought with atomic bombs instead of rocks and cattle bone clubs, the human species would have been extinct eons ago. With great power comes great responsibility.”
― Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook

“While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.”
― Newton Lee