Quotes by : Jaron Lanier

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

There are at least two ways to believe in the idea of quality. You can believe there's something ineffable....

When I work with experimental gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment,....

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask....

The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just as....

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound....

that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.