Jaron Lanier Quotes

When things are digital, they're all 1's and zero's, and so they commingle in ways we didn't anticipate and you could do things that were not like publishing or television, or computers, but were some intersection of those and that got known to be convergence, so between the switching, or trading of places and the convergence, you have today's media.

Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.

There's a tendency in graphics to allow the trimming of certain parts. But I think that if you're open about your process, your methodology, such as introducing thresholds, introducing filters, techniques people use in research and data management, it's legitimate. It's legitimate to say, "We're only going to show data above this level, or between levels."

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

I'm always looking for older equipment and ways of recording, but you can't escape the fact that it's all going to be digitized and reduced.

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

Listen: People are always saying, 'Rickey says Rickey.' But it's been blown way out of proportion. People might catch me, when they know I'm ticked off, saying, 'Rickey, what the heck are you doing, Rickey?' They say, 'Darn, Rickey, what are you saying Rickey for? Why don't you just say, 'I?' But I never did. I always said, 'Rickey,' and it become something for people to joke about.

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way that a writer might notice.

Genius points the way, talent takes it.

It is impossible, by the way, when picking one example of anything, to avoid picking one which is atypical in some sense.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

No. I kind of accepted it, in a way. That saving you was worth losing what we might've had.

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future. You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else.

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.