Walter Pater Quotes


The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people. Jaron Lanier Change 85
Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 83
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 Experience 78
Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable. Jaron Lanier Suffering 66
about Dont post anonymously unless you really might be in danger. Jaron Lanier Kindlehighlight 65
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 Technology 59
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. Jaron Lanier Technology 57
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 Computer 57
My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 42
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 39
enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test. Jaron Lanier Kindlehighlight 38
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 37
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 35
Emphasizing the crowd means deemphasizing individual humans in the design of society and when you ask people not to be people they revert to bad moblike behaviors. Jaron Lanier Internet 35
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 35
It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 33
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 Uncategorized 33
If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 33
Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 31
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess. Jaron Lanier Uncategorized 31
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence. Jaron Lanier Internet 30
that you will become entrapped in someone elses recent careless thoughts. Jaron Lanier Kindlehighlight 29
It will not suffer if it doesnt get what it wants. Jaron Lanier Kindlehighlight 25
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 Uncategorized 24

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