--- title: "13 Way Quotes By Jaron Lanier" description: "13 Way quotes by Jaron Lanier. Plus more from Jaron Lanier and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ea/jaron-lanier-2241_biology_evolution-has-never-found-a-way-to-be-an_2056224.png" --- > [Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/evolution-has-never-found-a-way-to-be-any-speed-but-very-slow/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ea/jaron-lanier-2241_biology_evolution-has-never-found-a-way-to-be-an_2056224.png) > [I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/i-ve-occasionally-been-wrong-about-certain-things-which-is-in-a-way/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/jaron-lanier-2241_certain_i-ve-occasionally-been-wrong-about-certa_3052797.png) > [I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/i-think-that-one-can-seek-a-way-to-eliminate-war-and-still-agree-that/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adc/jaron-lanier-2241_agree_i-think-that-one-can-seek-a-way-to-elimi_2714050.png) > [I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/i-think-seeking-perfection-in-human-affairs-is-a-perfect-way-to/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa1/jaron-lanier-2241_affair_i-think-seeking-perfection-in-human-affa_1322140.png) > [Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/advertising-is-the-edge-of-what-people-know-how-to-do-and-of-human/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/918/jaron-lanier-2241_advertising_advertising-is-the-edge-of-what-people-k_540609.png) > [I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/i-feel-drawn-to-experiment-with-ways-that-technology-can-interact/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ee/jaron-lanier-2241_because_i-feel-drawn-to-experiment-with-ways-tha_3105358.jpg) > [Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/information-doesn-t-deserve-to-be-free-it-is-an-abstract-tool-a/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/jaron-lanier-2241_abstract_information-doesn-t-deserve-to-be-free-i_2673719.png) > [Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/every-time-we-give-a-musician-the-advice-to-give-away-the-music-and/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/40b/jaron-lanier-2241_advice_every-time-we-give-a-musician-the-advice_2091785.jpg) > [ The upheavals \[of artificial intelligence\] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/the-upheavals-of-artificial-intelligence-can-escalate-quickly-and/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3bf/jaron-lanier-2241_artificial_the-upheavals-of-artificial-intelligence_2774070.jpg) > [Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/human-beings-either-function-as-individuals-or-as-members-of-a-pack/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46f/jaron-lanier-2241_behaviour_human-beings-either-function-as-individu_2228669.png) > [The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/the-basic-problem-is-that-web-2-0-tools-are-not-supportive-of/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be0/jaron-lanier-2241_basic_the-basic-problem-is-that-web-2-0-tools_1116581.png) > [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) > [The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/the-beauty-of-html-was-that-one-way-linking-made-it-very-simple-to/) [Jaron Lanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jaron-lanier/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc1/jaron-lanier-2241_beauty_the-beauty-of-html-was-that-one-way-link_2253566.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## 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/way/jaron-lanier/#itemlist", "name": "13 Way Quotes By Jaron Lanier", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jaron Lanier" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jaron-lanier/evolution-has-never-found-a-way-to-be-any-speed-but-very-slow/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ea/jaron-lanier-2241_biology_evolution-has-never-found-a-way-to-be-an_2056224.png", "contentUrl": 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