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

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

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

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

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

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

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.