Darrin Snider

“Transhumanists have a unique definition: Death is a malfunction of the human experience.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“By failing to engage it in intellectually challenging activities, your brain will fail to grow new connections, and it will indeed become disorganized and ultimately dysfunctional. The converse is also true for both body and brain. If someone who has not been physically active for a sustained period starts a program of physical therapy and regular exercise, she can regain her muscle mass and tone within a matter of months. The same thing is true of your brain.”
― Ray Kurzweil, Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever

“Give every sane and rational person a big red button to push to achieve instantaneous omnipotence, and all of them would quickly jam their fingers down on it.”
― Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager

“Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains