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Jaron Lanier Inspirational Quotes (72)

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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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Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.
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The beauty of HTML was that one-way linking made it very simple to spread because you could put something up and take no responsibility whatsoever. And that creates a society in which people display no responsibility whatsoever. That's the problem.
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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
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When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.
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After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
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Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
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There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.
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I'm an advocate of human nature.
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When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
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There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.
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A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It's shrinking the overall economy. I think it's the mistake of our age.
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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, however remote, that we might miss an opportunity to reduce the occurrence of war.
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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.
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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.
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If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.
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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
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Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.
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Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
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I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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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.
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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.
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