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Jaron Lanier  Quotes
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

—Jaron Lanier

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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.

—Jaron Lanier

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I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that’s very cold and has such an opposite effect.

—Jaron Lanier

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enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 human future.

—Jaron Lanier

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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

—Jaron Lanier

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The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order...

—Jaron Lanier

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I’ve occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 mind, or you can believe we just don’t understand what quality...

—Jaron Lanier

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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.

—Jaron Lanier

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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, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym,...

—Jaron Lanier

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about: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose...

—Jaron Lanier

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What does it mean to not be alone? I’ve approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

—Jaron Lanier

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Information wants to be free.’ So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn’t deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to...

—Jaron Lanier

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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 sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw...

—Jaron Lanier

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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

—Jaron Lanier

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Friendship
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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

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Soul
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Technologists provide tools that can improve people’s lives. But I want to be clear that I don’t think technology by itself improves people’s lives, since often I’m criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there’s commensurate...

—Jaron Lanier

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that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface...

—Jaron Lanier

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Google’s thing is not advertising because it’s not a romanticizing operation. It doesn’t involve expression. It’s a link. What they’re doing is selling access.

—Jaron Lanier

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A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a...

—Jaron Lanier

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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 like all human endeavors it’s imperfect.

—Jaron Lanier

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If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned...

—Jaron Lanier

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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 billboard into a video game.

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I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

—Jaron Lanier

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It will not suffer if it doesn’t get what it wants.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect...

—Jaron Lanier

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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel...

—Jaron Lanier

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EachSense
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A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are discernible instead of being scrambled into mush – the way heat scrambles things...

—Jaron Lanier

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A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

—Jaron Lanier

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Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

—Jaron Lanier

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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 lost.

—Jaron Lanier

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EachLost
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Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 design or something that matters, the decision is made by...

—Jaron Lanier

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If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it’s a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from...

—Jaron Lanier

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An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create standardized presences on sites like Facebook. Commercial interests promoted the widespread adoption of...

—Jaron Lanier

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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.

—Jaron Lanier

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Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience…. If there are enough zombies recruited into our world, I worry about the potential...

—Jaron Lanier

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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

—Jaron Lanier

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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

—Jaron Lanier

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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, mob-like behaviors.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 to ourselves.

—Jaron Lanier

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One good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.

—Jaron Lanier

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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 that’ll get good.

—Jaron Lanier

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A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn’t correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

—Jaron Lanier

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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 – Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on...

—Jaron Lanier

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