Jaron Lanier Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I'm an advocate of human nature.”

“My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.”

“Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.”

“Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.”

“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.”

“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.”