Quote by Jaron Lanier
Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I thin

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future. – Jaron Lanier

Other quotes by Jaron Lanier

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. – Jaron Lanier

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Technology
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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. – Jaron Lanier

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communication
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Were losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential. – Jaron Lanier

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Science
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Future
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Theres no present. Theres only the immediate future and the recent past. – George Carlin

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Future

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future. – Vladimir Horowitz

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Future

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow? – Thomas a Kempis

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Future

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. – Jim Bishop

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Future

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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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Age

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, its OK. – Heather Graham

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dad

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. – Sun Tzu

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Men