--- title: "13 Computer Quotes By Jaron Lanier" description: "13 Computer quotes by Jaron Lanier. Plus more from Jaron Lanier and more Computer sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/jaron-lanier-2241_canaries_musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canari_2216519.png" --- > [Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canaries-in-the-coalmine-but/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/jaron-lanier-2241_canaries_musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canari_2216519.png) > [We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-should-treat-computers-as-fancy-telephones-whose-purpose-is-to/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-should-treat-computers-as-fancy-telep_1536210.png) > [We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-imagine-pure-cybernetic-systems-but-we-can-prove-only-that-we-know/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/jaron-lanier-2241_computer_we-imagine-pure-cybernetic-systems-but-w_3226774.png) > [A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/a-file-sharing-service-and-a-hedge-fund-are-essentially-the-same/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/jaron-lanier-2241_advantage_a-file-sharing-service-and-a-hedge-fund_3101432.png) > [We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-already-knew-that-kids-learned-computer-technology-more-easily/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/394/jaron-lanier-2241_adults_we-already-knew-that-kids-learned-comput_2124614.png) > [When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/when-developers-of-digital-technologies-design-a-program-that/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/jaron-lanier-2241_accepting_when-developers-of-digital-technologies_662262.png) > [I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/i-ve-always-felt-that-the-human-centered-approach-to-computer-science/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18e/jaron-lanier-2241_adventures_i-ve-always-felt-that-the-human-centered_1708039.png) > [We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-the-potential-for-computer/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-th_304056.png) > [“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/the-attribution-of-intelligence-to-machines-crowds-of-fragments-or/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a9/jaron-lanier-2241_ai_the-attribution-of-intelligence-to-machi_2792439.jpg) > [Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/once-you-can-understand-something-in-a-way-that-you-can-shove-it-into/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c9/jaron-lanier-2241_bits_once-you-can-understand-something-in-a-w_1450471.jpg) > [A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/a-fashionable-idea-in-technical-circles-is-that-quantity-not-only/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a3/jaron-lanier-2241_algorithms_a-fashionable-idea-in-technical-circles_2562252.png) > [“Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/something-like-missionary-reductionism-has-happened-to-the-internet/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/059/jaron-lanier-2241_computer_something-like-missionary-reductionism-h_2760486.png) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/if-there-s-any-object-in-human-experience-that-s-a-precedent-for-what/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b9/jaron-lanier-2241_allowing_if-there-s-any-object-in-human-experienc_2683543.jpg) ## Other authors on Computer - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bill-gates-17911.jpg) Bill Gates 64 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/bill-gates/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-larry-wall-58700.jpg) Larry Wall 52 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/larry-wall/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-jobs-87290.jpg) Steve Jobs 44 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/steve-jobs/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-dave-barry-27009.jpg) Dave Barry 34 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/dave-barry/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steve-wozniak-87432.jpg) Steve Wozniak 26 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/steve-wozniak/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-douglas-adams-30413.jpg) Douglas Adams 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/douglas-adams/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-knuth-30007.jpg) Donald Knuth 21 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/donald-knuth/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kevin-mitnick-56869.jpg) Kevin Mitnick 20 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/kevin-mitnick/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-hawking-87021.jpg) Stephen Hawking 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/stephen-hawking/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-seymour-papert-84196.jpg) Seymour Papert 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/seymour-papert/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-douglas-rushkoff-30484.jpg) Douglas Rushkoff 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/douglas-rushkoff/) ## More by Jaron Lanier > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/if-we-allow-our-self-congratulatory-adoration-of-technology-to/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/individual-web-pages-as-they-first-appeared-in-the-early-1990s-had/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/style-used-to-be-an-interaction-between-the-human-soul-and-tools-that/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-should-talk-about-the-ultimate-cause-of-war-it-s-a-question-we/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/there-is-nothing-more-gray-stultifying-or-dreary-than-life-lived/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/there-are-at-least-two-ways-to-believe-in-the-idea-of-quality-you-can/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/an-intelligent-person-feels-guilty-for-downloading-music-without/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [“What these critics forget is that printing presses in themselves provide no guarantee of an enlightened outcome. People, not machines, made the Renaissance. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/what-these-critics-forget-is-that-printing-presses-in-themselves/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/there-were-studies-that-asked-people-in-different-cultures-to-draw/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience… If there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/zombies-are-familiar-characters-in-philosophical-thought-experiments/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-the-potential-for-computer/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/of-all-the-things-you-can-spend-a-lot-of-money-on-the-only-things-you/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [ At the turn of the \[21st\] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/at-the-turn-of-the-21st-century-it-was-really-sergey-brin-at-google/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/the-mass-culture-of-childhood-right-now-is-astonishingly-technical/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) > [Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/wal-mart-impoverished-its-own-customer-base-google-is-facing-exactly/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computer/jaron-lanier/#itemlist", "name": "13 Computer Quotes By Jaron Lanier", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jaron Lanier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canaries-in-the-coalmine-but/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/jaron-lanier-2241_canaries_musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canari_2216519.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/jaron-lanier-2241_canaries_musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canari_2216519.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2c/jaron-lanier-2241_canaries_musicians-and-journalists-are-the-canari_2216519.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more…” — Jaron Lanier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are the source of our value, our creativity, our sense of reality, then all of our work with computers will be worthwhile and beautiful.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jaron Lanier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-should-treat-computers-as-fancy-telephones-whose-purpose-is-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-should-treat-computers-as-fancy-telep_1536210.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-should-treat-computers-as-fancy-telep_1536210.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efd/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-should-treat-computers-as-fancy-telep_1536210.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember…” — Jaron Lanier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We imagine \"pure\" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. 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We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jaron Lanier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-the-potential-for-computer/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-th_304056.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-th_304056.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47b/jaron-lanier-2241_beautiful_we-re-losing-track-of-the-vastness-of-th_304056.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. 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It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our command.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jaron Lanier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/once-you-can-understand-something-in-a-way-that-you-can-shove-it-into/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c9/jaron-lanier-2241_bits_once-you-can-understand-something-in-a-w_1450471.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c9/jaron-lanier-2241_bits_once-you-can-understand-something-in-a-w_1450471.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c9/jaron-lanier-2241_bits_once-you-can-understand-something-in-a-w_1450471.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code…” — Jaron Lanier", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. 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