Computers Quotes by Jaron Lanier

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

— Jaron Lanier

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and…

— Jaron Lanier

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

— Jaron Lanier

We imagine "pure" cybernetic systems, but we can prove only that we know how to build fairly dysfunctional ones. We kid ourselves…

— Jaron Lanier

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

We should treat computers as fancy telephones, whose purpose is to connect people… As long as we remember that we ourselves are…

— Jaron Lanier

“The foundational idea of humanistic computing is that provenance is valuable. Information is people in disguise, and people ought to be paid…

— Jaron Lanier

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off…

— Jaron Lanier

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

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

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

Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended…

— Jaron Lanier

“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told…

— Jaron Lanier

“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said…

— Jaron Lanier

“The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by…

— Jaron Lanier

“Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and…

— Jaron Lanier

“This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the…

— Jaron Lanier

“But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your…

— Jaron Lanier

“A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are…

— Jaron Lanier

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person,…

— Jaron Lanier