Quote by 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

Other quotes by 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

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Technology
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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

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Science
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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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Other Quotes from
Technology
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Todays stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. – Marc Andreessen

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Technology

Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being. – Simon Mainwaring

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Technology

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. – John Perry Barlow

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Technology

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology. – Alexander McCall Smith

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Technology

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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. – W. H. Auden

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A faith of convenience is a hollow faith. – Father Mulcahy, M*A*S*H, “A Holy Mess,” 1982

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Faith

Im only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it. – John C. Hawkes

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Imagination

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it arm around the shoulder humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. Its mean, mean stuff. – Robert Orben

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Humor