Actors Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Jaron Lanier

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Jaron Lanier