Jaron Lanier Information Quotations

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it's a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can't be any rights of authorship.

I've 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.

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

Information is alienated experience.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.