Author: Jaron Lanier

Quotes

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

- Jaron Lanier

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

- 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

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

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

- Jaron Lanier

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

- 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

I'm an advocate of human nature.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

- Jaron Lanier

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