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
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
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
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
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
We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries… — 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
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — 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
“Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by… — 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
