I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I do real paintings, you know. I’m a little messy in the studio, so I’m a bit of a danger. But I just adore it. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It’s us looking at ourselves – and like all human endeavors it’s imperfect. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
Technologists provide tools that can improve people’s lives. But I want to be clear that I don’t think technology by itself improves people’s lives, since often I’m criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there’s commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it’s for naught. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. Jaron Lanier Read Quote
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 Read Quote
