Jaron Lanier Quotes

Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. Considered a founding father of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist.Lanier has composed classical music and is a collector of rare instruments; his acoustic album, Instruments of Change features Asian wind and string instruments such as the khene mouth organ, the suling flute, and the sitar-like esraj. Lanier teamed with Mario Grigorov to compose the soundtrack to the documentary film, The Third Wave . In 2010, Lanier was nominated in the TIME 100 list of most influential people. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. May 1960
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Famous Jaron Lanier Quotes

“Digital information is really just people in disguise.”

Who owns the future? (2013)
Who owns the future? (2013)

“The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also can't change very much.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

Jaron Lanier Quotes

“There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

“I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.”

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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