Jaron Lanier Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.”

“Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.”

“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.”

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