Jaron Lanier

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#both #governments #make #mobs #need

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

#bit #danger #i #i do #just

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

#cold #done #drawn #effect #experiment

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#business #economy #going #i #information

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#because #change #complexity #crummy #expensive

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#come #companies #dramatic #grow #i

I'm an advocate of human nature. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#human #human nature #i #nature

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#i #sense

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

— Jaron Lanier

#been #being #certain #certain things #delightful

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#agenda #allow #been #contact #distract