All Jaron Lanier Quotes
- I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. Been
- People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines… Able
- People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. Channel
- What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. Alone
- Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a… Advertiser
- Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication… Anonymous
- 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 living in this… Advice
- I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip,… Blog
- 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 device where you… Allowing
- 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 been… Adoration
- The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. Changes
- 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 process… Abhorrent
- A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other. Each
- Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad,… Ask
- Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of… Acceptance
- 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 data in a… Agency
- Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the… Cheerful
- Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. Base