sciVive Quotes

“What you discover is that if you want to live properly in this world, you need to be a little greedy.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Learn the language you need.

Learn the language of business (accounting)
Learn the language of scalability (programming)
Learn the language of entrepreneurship (influence)”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“You’re only awake 16 hours a day. Now subtract out all the hours where you have to be doing something. How many hours are left? Three? This is your free time. Choose wisely how you spend these precious few hours.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“The best thing you can do is delay gratification.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“The guy that pays you decides what you do with your time.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement that advocates using evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Cure cancer—get three years.
Cure heart disease—get three years.
Fund biotech—get more than three years.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Dreams are only as useful as they turn into behaviors.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“What if Albert Einstein didn’t have to pause to die, and just kept working? And what if he wasn’t alone? What if the other people whose ideas he built from, and the other people that built off of his ideas, were all still alive and all still working together?”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Anti-aging technology that could make you 30 again, when you’re 50, gives you another 20 years to kick ass.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“A few centuries ago, kids were not given names until they reached about five years old.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“The difference between working on extinction level events and working on longevity is that longevity is guaranteed to give you dividends; guaranteed to have a pay off at some point, perhaps even by accident.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“We need more human beings doing more intelligent things that benefit other people. We need more people acting in their own best interests. We need more people to understand what their own best interests are, which means less complacency, less cowardice, and more correct, heroic, honorable action.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If you have a choice to buy a stock in a company that heals people instead of hurts people, as in weapons vs. biotech, biotech could be better because there’s never been less war, and there have never been more people. The biotech sector is going to outperform the weapons sector.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If your future is important enough to save for, it’s important enough to be around for.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If you’re in your thirties, then you should want lots and lots of more research, even at the cost of application, so that the maximum payoff from their efforts kicks in right when your health is deteriorating.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Arguments against eternal life

- Only rich people will get it (No tech has ever done this.)
- Better to give money to the poor than science. (Family, city, state, nation, has proven local investment beats foreign.)
- Dead people make more room for new, other people. (Consider going first.)
- Run out of resources. (Live people discover/extract/renew better than dead or nonexistent.)
- Overpopulation. (Colonize the seas, solar system, or have a war.) Stop having kids.
- Worse wars. (Nukes are more dangerous than having your first 220-year-old person in 2136)
- Dictators never die. (They die all the time and rarely of age.)
- Old people are expensive. (50% of your lifetime medical costs occur in your final year. Delay is profitable.)
- Old people suck. (Death is an inferior cure to robustness.)
- You’ll get bored. (Your memory isn’t that good, or your boredom isn’t age related.)
- You’ll have to watch your loved ones die. (So you prefer they watch you?)
- Like Tithonus, you’ll live forever in a terrible state. (Longevity requires robustness.)
- Against God’s will. (Not if he disallows suicide, then it is required.)
- People will force you to live forever.
Do you think less people make progress faster? What’s your target level of depriving life of existence?”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Man up, save your family, save yourself.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Better than training is controlling your own environment.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Perhaps you shouldn’t be answering the door at all really. If you don’t answer your door, you can’t be served with a subpoena, or punched in the face.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“It’s very hard to shoot a moving target, so at a distance consider running instead of complying with demands.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Turns out that sitting backwards in an airplane is 10 times safer than sitting facing forward.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“Directly attacking the pro-death mindset that so many people have has been proven unfruitful by anyone that’s tried it recently, thus Scivive suggests a more sex, drugs, and rock and roll approach. Give them the hedonism they want, and should want, and then pivot into the correct actions intelligent emotionally fulfilled people tend to desire. In this case, rejuvenation technology.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“You do can something, right? We are at the time where we do not have to pretend that there’s nothing that can be done. There are things that can be done, and as Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel said, they’re underfunded. No one cares about them. Poor Aubrey de Grey has been giving talks on TED and at Google, and no one believes. The listeners are just thinking, “Eh, crazy guy. Death is cool.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“How many people are sitting in old folk’s homes right now that no one cares about? That is also a tragedy of immense proportions. There was a time when those people had meaning. There was a time when those people had opportunity, power, vibrancy, life, and attractiveness. When do they really die? Is it when their heart stops? The brain stops? Or when they could stop caring? Or do they die when we stop caring?”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“We focus on trivial things too often.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If you had a longer life, you’d sure be able to make some mistakes and correct them before the end.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“When you diet and exercise, you only help yourself; nothing you’re doing there is helping anyone else. When you build medical technology you not only help yourself, you help all the humans that will ever exist in the future.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“If you look above you in your family tree, you will see that 8 out of all the 10 people above you that are no longer alive, are likely to have been killed by the same two things, cancer and heart disease. Guess what this means for you? It means you have about an 80 percent chance of dying of a heart attack or cancer as well. Is it wise of you to hope that someone else saves your life?”
― Richard Heart, sciVive

“You won’t have the problem of a 200-year-old man for at least 80 years, so don’t worry about it. In 80 years we’ll have more than enough resources to handle a cool 200-year-old dude.”
― Richard Heart, sciVive