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
One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out 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
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to… — 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
An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation… — 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
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
![“At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social…” quote by Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10d/jaron-lanier-2241_21st-century_at-the-turn-of-the-21st-century-it-was-r_345382.jpg)
