We created computers as an extension of our brains, and now we're connecting through those computers and the Internet cloud as a way of expanding them.
Tiffany ShlainI believe if you work really hard and follow what you want to do in life that that combination - I believe in it. You need to take risks.
Tiffany ShlainThe cool kids have co-opted all the neat stuff ? computers, gadgets, video games. Theres no such thing as a computer geek anymore.
Tiffany ShlainI have found that sharing this very intimate part of my life has been really powerful, because it has brought support from people I wasn't expecting. It's cathartic on many different levels. As I get older, I realize it's so much better to connect with people. It makes everything better to connect. Only connect. Why not have my art be about that? I think of it as moving from the third person to the first.
Tiffany ShlainThrough a lot of scientific and left-hemisphere thinking in the last 400 years, we've separated ourselves from nature, as if we were superior. We were looking at nature as a resource that we could manipulate. I think we're coming to a new understanding that it's just impossible. We are nature. We can't remove ourselves. We need to think more interdependently.
Tiffany Shlain