Director

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

I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder.

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.

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

We're the first technology-creating species. We use technology to extend our reach. We didn't stay in the caves, and we haven't stayed on the planet. To play jazz with our genomes and the universe might ultimately be what we're all about.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 somehow make them have myopic vision about what could be.

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 allows us to extend our vision into the micro-sphere.

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 unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

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 only the amazing stuff.

I always loved watching movies because I loved what certain moments inside of films did to me.

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.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

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

My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.

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