Quotes by Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier

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

Graffiti

Rap

Wall

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principles we already understand. Some of my colleagues think a million, or perhaps a billion, fragmentary insults will eventually yield wisdom that surpasses that of any well-thought-out essay, so long as sophisticated secret statistical algorithms recombine the fragments. I disagree. A trope from the early days of computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.

Circles

Thinking

Yield

A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there’s this idea that whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. It’s shrinking the overall economy. I think it’s the mistake of our age.

Ideas

Mistake

Thinking

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

Average

Economy

People

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

Real

Unexpected

Weirdness

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Accomplishment

Culture

Valleys

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It’s a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

Games

Ideas

New Experiences

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven’t been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

New Experiences

Technology

Thinking

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

People

Progress

Way

After my mother’s death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

Difficulty

Mother

People

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Able

Acceptance

Accomplishment

Action

Actors

Adults

Adventure

Advertising

Advice

Agendas

Ambition

America

Antiques

Artificial Intelligence

Artist

Average

Beautiful

Behaviour

Belief

Blind

Body

Book

Brain

Calling

Cancer

Cells

Certain

Change

Children

Circles

Civilization

Class

Clouds

Communication

Computer

Consciousness

Constructive

Copies

Creativity

Criticism

Crush

Culture

Danger

Data

Deception

Delightful

Demand

Design

Desire

Development

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Quotes by Jaron Lanier

Jaron Lanier

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

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

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

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It’s a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough – they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven’t been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

After my mother’s death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

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