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