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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?
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
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