Lanier Tech Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads. — Anne Robinson

To state it as clearly as I can: I am part of what I criticize. I benefit from time to time by actively participating in the schemes I would like to see ended; it happens as a side effect of doing the things I love to do. However, I don't want to become an academic or remote observer of tech events. My choice is to be engaged even if that means I am tainted. I live with contradictions, in accordance with the human condition, but do my best not to forget what absurdities are involved. What I can offer is being open about what I think. — Jaron Lanier

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.' — Terence McKenna

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

To write lyrics and sing stuff used to be a real chore for me, especially before this 'Diamond Eyes' record. I was spending years making records. — Chino Moreno

Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there. — Phil Gramm

Remember, if you keep living your life on your terms,people can mock you all they want, but they'll respect you in the end — Cassidy Calloway

Autism is part of who I am. — Temple Grandin

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself. — Martha Wainwright

Courage of the heart is rare, Queen Elena. — Sarah J. Maas

The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic," the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. "Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease. — Jaron Lanier

In a crisis, give help first and then advice. — Aesop

There is no gravity in space. There is gravity almost everywhere in space. It is reduced but we can't escape gravity because it is a fundamental force of the universe. Astronauts seem weightless because they are orbiting Earth. They are falling towards Earth but they are moving sufficiently sideways to miss it. So they are constantly falling but never landing. — James Egan

When it comes to compounding, don't trust your intuition - you have no idea how powerful it is. — Manoj Arora

Just be careful that your determination doesn't turn into your fanaticism. — Art Hochberg

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him ... everytime. — Anthony Horowitz

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me. — Rick Allen

And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who seem dedicated to the notion that Terence McKenna can always be improved. I'm extremely grateful for that. The frontiers are enormous in that dimension. — Terence McKenna