At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image