Jaron Lanier, You Are Not A Gadget Quotes
A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.
A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
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?
that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.
about: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.
The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.