I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. — 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… — 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
The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote.… — 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
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace… — 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
“An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create… — 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
![“The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans…” quote by Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3bf/jaron-lanier-2241_artificial_the-upheavals-of-artificial-intelligence_2774070.jpg)
