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People Quotes by Jaron Lanier
- Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to…
- The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a…
- Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.
- Here’s a current example of the challenge we face: At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and…
- When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
- Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
- 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…
- People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
- The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle