211 Quotes by Jaron Lanier

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

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

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

Go to where you are kindest

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.