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
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because its too expensive to change the interface. – Jaron Lanier
My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that Im willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. – Jaron Lanier
Ive always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. – Jaron Lanier