Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. - Jaron Lanier 1 Share Now -
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. - Jaron Lanier 2 Share Now -
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. - Jaron Lanier 3 Share Now -
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. - Jaron Lanier 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. - Jaron Lanier 6 Share Now -
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. - Jaron Lanier 7 Share Now -
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. - Jaron Lanier 8 Share Now -
Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. - Jaron Lanier 9 Share Now -
We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. - Jaron Lanier 10 Share Now -
