Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

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

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

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

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

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
Jaron Lanier

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

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

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
Jaron Lanier

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

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
Jaron Lanier

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

Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.