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Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Jaron Lanier
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Jaron Lanier
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: May 3
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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.
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Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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I would argue that among musicians who work in technology today, the level of technological sophistication probably exceeds that of military programs, to be blunt. They are just really smart people attracted to making strange new sounds.
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You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
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I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
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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.
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Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.
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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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Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.
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To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.
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The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
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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.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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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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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
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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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The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share
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