Books Quote by Jaron Lanier

The economies of the future are information.

— Steve Jurvetson

“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.”

— Cal Newport

“Abundant information wants to be free. Scarce information wants to be expensive.”

— Chris Anderson

“It’s the natural state of information to be free.”

— Dave Eggers

“Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of…

— Franklin Foer

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Today we are on the brink of another extraordinary revolution. The Information Age is already over and an exciting new epoch is taking its…

— Patricia Aburdene

“Information has always been power, now it is also wealth. Nonmaterial and, with the aid of modern technology, extremely mobile, information can escape government…

— Walter B. Wriston

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right…

— Steve Jobs

“A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.”

— Daniel Goleman

Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so,…

— Jaron Lanier

“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It…

— Franklin Foer