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Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, e

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. – Jaron Lanier

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Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. – Jaron Lanier

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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

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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because its too expensive to change the interface. – Jaron Lanier

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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. – Adlai Stevenson

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I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and dont even really watch their TV anymore. – Busy Philipps

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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything. – Ted Nelson

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I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music Im working on. – Clint Black

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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

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