Top 51 Quotes by Jaron Lanier

About Jaron Lanier

These are some quotes by American author Jaron Lanier Artist, who was born on May 3, 1960.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Jaron Lanier

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Jaron Lanier

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Jaron Lanier

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.

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.

Jaron Lanier

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

Jaron Lanier

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Jaron Lanier

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

Jaron Lanier

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Jaron Lanier

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.

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.

Jaron Lanier

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.

Jaron Lanier

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