My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff. – Jaron Lanier
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
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way thats very cold and has such an opposite effect. – Jaron Lanier
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. – Jaron Lanier