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
“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
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every 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
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
As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless… — 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
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. — 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
“we have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.” — 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
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