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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
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Computer Scientist
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University Teacher
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New York City
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If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?
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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.
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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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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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You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
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We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.
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In the Sixties, the hippies said Make love, not war, and that was naive. But it might be less naive to say Make music, not war, in the sense that the people who create musical instruments are the same people who make up new weapons.
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The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
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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.
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Separation anxiety is assuaged by constant connection. Young people announce every detail of their lives on services like Twitter not to show off, but to avoid the closed door at bedtime, the empty room, the screaming vacuum of an isolated mind.
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I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.
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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
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Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
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The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
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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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Humans change themselves through technology.
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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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