Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.
Jaron LanierIndividuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.
Jaron LanierThere is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
Jaron LanierEliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.
Jaron LanierOnce you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our command.
Jaron Lanier