Jaron Lanier Quotes

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Jaron Lanier

Profession : Artist

Birth : May 3, 1960

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

Jaron Lanier

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

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

The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.

Jaron Lanier

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.

Jaron Lanier

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

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.

Jaron Lanier

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

Jaron Lanier

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

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I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

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