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"Beware not to use the future as an excuse to ignore living in the present."
"I don't feel that I'm using technology, I don't feel that I'm wearing technology, I feel that I am technology."
"There are no white skins, and there are no black skins. Humans skins are of different shades of orange."
"Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body."
"Technology is made by humans. If we modify our body with human creations we become more human."
"It's not the union between my head and the electronic eye what makes me feel 'cyborg', it's the union between the software and my brain."
"If salads sounded like Justin Bieber, children would eat more vegetables."
"When you're a little weird, you aspire to be normal; when you're very weird, you aspire to be recognised for it."
"If I have problems perceiving a color I don't know who to go to – an opthamologist, a neurologist, or a computer programmer."
"Light is slow."
"Frankly, Neil Harbisson, freaked me the fuck out. Both inspirational and terrifying. Like seeing a benevolent witch displaying her magic: even if you’re only using your powers to grow magic daffodils, it’s an ungodly talent that’s beyond human."
"I had a very special encounter with him. Surreal and especially futuristic. He raises so many questions, so many lines of thought, that force you to think differently."
"Neil Harbisson is one of the world's first bona fide cyborgs."
"Harbisson's antenna, hovering above his Henry V-meets-the-Monkees hairdo, is quite the lifestyle statement. I tell him he looks like a cross between an insect and a call-centre worker."
"Harbisson meets two apparently incompatible conditions: shyness and exhibitionism. He speaks softly, never utters a word higher than another and his body language is that of someone slightly retracted. However, he walks all over the world with a cyborg eye dangling over his forehead in a kind of antenna that seems to sprout from within his head. Along the way, people nudge each other and point at him. But non of that stops him, he remains impassive and continues on his way."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.