Jaron Lanier Quotes

• A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

  Jaron Lanier

  Real, Unexpected, Weirdness

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.53, Vintage

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• Si hay algún objeto en la experiencia humana que constituya un precedente de lo que debería ser un ordenador, es un instrumento musical: un dispositivo en el que se puede explorar un enorme abanico de posibilidades a través de una interfaz que conecta la mente y el cuerpo, permitiendo ser emocionalmente auténtico y expresivo.

  Jaron Lanier

  Musical, Mind, Body

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

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  Struggle, Artist, Deception

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• It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

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  Technology, Engineering, Information

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• Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn one way or the other. It's almost always the case that our worst behaviour comes out when we're switched to the mob setting. The problem with a lot of software designs is that they switch us to that setting.

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  Design, Behaviour, Way

  "My bright idea: Jaron Lanier". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

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• If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.

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  Money, Artist, Musician

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.83, Vintage

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• Humans change themselves through technology.

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  Technology, Humans

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• Los libros son muy, muy difíciles de escribir. Representan una especie de cumbre de lidiar con lo que uno realmente tiene que decir

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  Libro, Escritura, Amable

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• America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves.

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  Adventure, Self, America

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• If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

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  Writing, Brain, Filters

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• Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

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  Stupidity, Action, Individual

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• The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

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  Meaningful, People, Meaningless

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.17, Vintage

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• If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more bloated, using up all available resources.

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  Memories, Law, Resources

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book edited by John Brockman, 2003.

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• Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

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  One Day, Might, Privacy

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• Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.

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  Media, Culture, Fandoms

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.20, Vintage

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• Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

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  Government, Views, Multiple Choice

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• You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

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  Compartir

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.13, Vintage

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• Crea un sitio web que exprese algo sobre quién eres que no encaje en la plantilla disponible en una red social.

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  Networking, Fit, Social

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.21, Vintage

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• Las turbas y los dictadores están hechos el uno para el otro, y cuando aparecen las turbas, pronto florecen los dictadores.

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  Dictator, Made, Made For Each Other

  On "Digital Power And Its Discontents", www.edge.org.

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• I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

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  Thinking, Perfect, Way

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• Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people.

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  Acceptance, People, Volunteer

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• 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.

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  People, Able, Economic

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• Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

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  Inspirational, Civilization, Trying

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• Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.

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  Way, Evolution, Speed

  "One Half of a Manifesto". www.edge.org. November 10, 2000.

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• El estilo solía ser una interacción entre el alma humana y unas herramientas que lo limitaban. En la era digital, tendrá que venir solo del alma.

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  Technology, Soul, Style

  "Taking Sock" by Jaron Lanier, www.wired.com. January 1, 1998.

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