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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

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people. — Jaron Lanier

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

When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive. — Jaron Lanier

About: Don't post anonymously unless you really might be in danger. — Jaron Lanier

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

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them. — Jaron Lanier

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. — Jaron Lanier

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

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

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself. — Jaron Lanier

The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture. — Jaron Lanier

The decision reduction service would use its particular style and competence to create bundles of decisions you could accept or reject en masse. — Jaron Lanier

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do. — Jaron Lanier

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. — Jaron Lanier

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system. — Jaron Lanier

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. — Jaron Lanier

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

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

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big. — Jaron Lanier

Wouldn't it be easier just to treat the information space as a public resource and tax or charge companies somehow for the benefit of using it? — Jaron Lanier

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. — Jaron Lanier

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

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. — Jaron Lanier

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. — Jaron Lanier

What if only humans are real, and information is not? — Jaron Lanier

Our times demand rejection of seven word bios. — Jaron Lanier

Not only have consumers prioritized flash and laziness over empowerment, but we have also acquiesced to being spied on all the time. — Jaron Lanier

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used. — Jaron Lanier

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook. — Jaron Lanier

I'm an advocate of human nature. — Jaron Lanier

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value. — Jaron Lanier

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress. — Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. — Jaron Lanier

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one's anus to one's mouth. — Jaron Lanier

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. — Jaron Lanier

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

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

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

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. — Jaron Lanier

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions. — Jaron Lanier

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates. — Jaron Lanier

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? — Jaron Lanier

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. — Jaron Lanier

Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow. — Jaron Lanier

It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants. — Jaron Lanier

Rama's experiments suggest that some metaphors can be understood as mild forms of synesthesia. In — Jaron Lanier

In a more incremental world, attributions and rewards will still be contested, no doubt, but particular outcomes will no longer make or break lives. — Jaron Lanier

People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time. — Jaron Lanier

I fear that we are beginning to design ourselves to suit digital models of us, and I worry about a leaching of emphaty and humanity in that process. — Jaron Lanier

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good. — Jaron Lanier

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. — Jaron Lanier

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

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. — Jaron Lanier

That you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. — Jaron Lanier

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper. — Jaron Lanier

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

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site. — 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. — Jaron Lanier

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

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

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet. — Jaron Lanier

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory. — Jaron Lanier

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful. — Jaron Lanier

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology. — Jaron Lanier

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. — Jaron Lanier

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine. — Jaron Lanier

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility. — Jaron Lanier

Enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test. — Jaron Lanier