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

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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

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design
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Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves. – Jaron Lanier

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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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Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced you away from thinking about things as deeply as you should. – Arthur Ganson

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If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently. – Heather Donahue

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Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. – Eric S. Raymond

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I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but its all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. – Whitfield Diffie

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