Jaron Lanier Quotes

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

There is nothing that isn't true if you believe it; and nothing is true, believe it or not.

The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.