I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it’s a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can’t be any rights of authorship. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
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. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
I’ve always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that I’m willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
I’ve occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It’s pretty shocking to me. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can’t be. It can only be a channel. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
