All Jaron Lanier Quotes
- 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 opposed… Beautiful
- External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. Affectation
- If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends. Advertised
- Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions. Always Easier
- When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. Consequence
- Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us… Advertising
- Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn… Almost Always
- Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day. Advertiser
- Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. Appear
- Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. Economically
- America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves… Able
- I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial… Able
- Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of… Activated
- The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and… Advertising
- A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. Accomplishment
- After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. Death
- An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. Cover
- Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. Available
- Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. Avoid
- I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it. Adore
- I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over. Advertising
- I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. Change
- I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. Big
- I'm an advocate of human nature. Advocate
- I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook. Anti