There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
Jaron Lanier Quotes
born 1960 United States
Jaron Lanier (born 3 May 1960) is an American computer scientist, musician, and writer on technology and society. He is considered one of the pioneers of virtual reality.
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14 quotes
People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
Digital information is really just people in disguise.
Who owns the future? (2013)
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jaron Lanier (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.