If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used. — 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
We should talk about the ultimate cause of war. It's a question we should never stop asking, because if we do, there's… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said… — 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
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
The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts.… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be 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
If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
At a minimum if we can just have enough distribution of clout in society so it isn't run by a tiny minority,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if… — 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
Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In history, in most cultures, and at most points in time, if you want to find the most advanced technologies, you can… — 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)
