Jaron Lanier quotes - page 2

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 a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have. (Jaron Lanier)
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. View quote
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 around online. View quote
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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. View quote
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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. View quote
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. View quote
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Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions. View quote
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I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. View quote
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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)
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm an advocate of human nature. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. View quote
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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)
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. View quote
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An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. View quote
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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. View quote
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The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. View quote
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