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If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
— Jaron Lanier
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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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
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A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
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In order to make tech into something that empowers people, people have to be willing to act as if we can handle being powerful.
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You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.
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The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.
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We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
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Why do people deserve a penny when they update their Facebook status? Because they'll spend some of it on you.
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I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.
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My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.
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Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
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What if only humans are real, and information is not?
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Our times demand rejection of seven word bios.
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Not only have consumers prioritized flash and laziness over empowerment, but we have also acquiesced to being spied on all the time.
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If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.
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I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.
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I'm an advocate of human nature.
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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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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
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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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Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
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A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
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Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.
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Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
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It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants.
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Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In
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Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.
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I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
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A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
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Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
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Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
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I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
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I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.
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Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.
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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
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Enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.
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