Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine. Jaron Lanier More Quotes by Jaron Lanier More Quotes From Jaron Lanier A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. Jaron Lanier graffitiwallrap After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. Jaron Lanier difficultymotherpeople The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism. Jaron Lanier irrelevanceignoranceclouds The most effective young Facebook users, however -- the ones who will probably be winners if Facebook turns out to be a model of the future they will inhabit as adults -- are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves. Jaron Lanier adultssuccessfulfiction Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value. Jaron Lanier sirensnarcissistblind I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect. Jaron Lanier feelcoldtechnologyway 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 livedadhousesometimes I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying. Jaron Lanier viewunderstandenjoysometimes 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 thinkmoraltechnologypeople
