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
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
“With an eBook, however, you are not a first-class commercial citizen. Instead, you have only purchased tenuous rights within someone else’s company… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“What did you think would happen? We in Silicon Valley undermined copyright to make commerce become more about services instead of content:… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Every power-seeking entity in the world, whether it’s a government, a business, or an informal group, has gotten wise to the idea… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing… — 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
