211 Quotes by 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.

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

Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique – shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward.

I felt the world needed a tool for the spontaneous invention of new virtual worlds that would express the stuff of the mind that was otherwise impenetrable. If you could conjure just the right virtual world, it would open up souls and math and love.

Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they’ll spend some of it on you.

In order to make tech into something that empowers people, people have to be willing to act as if we can handle being powerful.

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

Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say.