“As wearable devices, health tracking, and quantified self are gaining popularity, human beings are also becoming part of the Internet of things.”

“Self-doubt is part of being human...but the main thing is to get on with the business of survival.”

“If you have a portable surveillance and tracking device, please turn it off. They have already tracked you in here, they already know you are listening to me; so, there is no need for you to keep it on. And by the way, these portable tracking devices emit signals for tracking purposes even when they are apparently switched off; the only way to stop them is to take out all the batteries. And if they want to listen, they don't have to do it through your portable surveillance device, I expect recordings will be posted they can listen to those, and they are even welcome to come and attend. So there is absolutely no reason why your portable tracking and surveillance device has to be on.”

“Everyone has things they're afraid of. It's part of being human.”

“The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.”

“We have been alienated by costs that soared beyond the means of all but the well-insured or wealthy; by specialization and the cold, quantifying approach that brushes past human concerns, and by the growing despair that comes from spending without regaining health.”

“Many body events that you think of in your society as negative -- certain viruses, for example -- are instead meant as self-corrective devices, even as fever actually promotes health rather than impedes it.”

“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

“The Internet is the more democratic media them last times. And for being anarchical, it's open to all manifestations, artistic also.”

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”