Cyborg Quotes

• The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Dream, Garden, Dust

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.theguardian.com. 1984.

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• I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Goddess

  "You Are Cyborg" by Hari Kunzru, www.wired.com. February 1, 1997.

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• In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Men, Self, Space

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• You know, anyone who wears glasses, in one sense or another, is a cyborg.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Glasses, Knows

  "Are We Becoming Cyborgs?". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 2012.

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• A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Reality, Fiction, Machines

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Book by Donna Jeanne Haraway, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1984.

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• If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, Thinking, Would Be

  "Are We Becoming Cyborgs?". Interview with Serge Schmemann, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 2012.

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• The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending.

  Bryan Appleyard

  Technology, Ideals, Advanced Technology

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• I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

  Kevin Warwick

  Fate, Childhood, Robots

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• Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Machines, Lively

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• The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Self, Feminist, Kind

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• Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Goddess, Spirals, Bounds

  "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century)". Book by Donna J. Haraway (pp. 149-181), 1991.

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• We will continue to live in a form in which we become cyborg. Either we download our information to a machine or we incorporate so many machine parts that we don't know where we end and the machine begins.

  Sherry Turkle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Self, Differences, Mind

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• By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Machines, Century, Chimera

  "Become Who You Are: The World’s First Legally Recognized Cyborg May Be Onto Something" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2015.

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• I want to do something with my life; I want to be a cyborg.

  Kevin Warwick

  Want

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• Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Party, Connections, Cosmos

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• Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, May, Infinite

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• We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of the hope for a monstrous world without gender.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Dream, World, Rebirth

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• I would like to have my consciousness digitally preserved and housed in a pleasant place for later insertion into a fully functional cyborg when that's possible.

  Stanley Bing

  Consciousness, Pleasant

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Mean, Technology, Mazes

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• She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.

  Marissa Meyer

  Balls

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• I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant.

  Marissa Meyer

  Relevant

  Marissa Meyer (2013). “Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles Book 2)”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

  Donna J. Haraway

  Fall, Writing, Men

  "A Cyborg Manifesto". Essay by Donna J. Haraway, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1984.

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• Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever.

  Janelle Monae

  Voice, Race, Color

  "Going Androidgenous With Janelle Monáe". Interview with Victoria Rossi, www.motherjones.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Did you know that she was cyborg?” asked a woman in an unhidden tone of disgust. Kai stared at her, appearing confused, then let his gaze dance over the crowd. He shuffled his feet closer to the podium, a wrinkle forming on the bridge of his nose. Cinder bit the inside of her cheek and braced herself for adamant disgust. Who would ever invite a cyborg to the ball? But instead, Kai said simply, “I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant. Next question?” Cinder’s metal fingers jolted.

  Marissa Meyer

  Confused, Wrinkles, Bridges

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