Herbie Hancock Beings Quotations

I don't see how we can have both the freedoms we had before and the safety net that we all need considering the way the world is today. And that's just because human beings can't trust each other. We've given in over and over to some of the darkest elements that exist in life itself.

What establishes value is something that is going to move humanity forward. If humanity is not in the equation, it's like the planet without any human beings on it.

We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out.

Everything has focused on what the technology is capable of doing and making tools and then taking human beings and saying, what can you do with that.

The mixture of all kinds of things, all kinds of beings - it's just like what we have here in this country.

The thing is, much of the way I look at music now, and its role as an aspect of culture, and creative expression for human beings in the 21st century, much of the way I look at it for a record like Future 2 Future is very similar to how I might look at it for a record like Directions in Music.

But I'm talking about responsibility, a sense of responsibility. Developing software to help human beings develop more of a sense of responsibility. Kids need that. Adults need it too. More self worth. More self-respect.