There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The foundational idea of humanistic computing is that provenance is valuable. Information is people in disguise, and people ought to be paid… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's a chance,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable going on within the human… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience… If there are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share
