Jaron lanier

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The...

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that...

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Wal-Mart impoverished its own customer base. Google is facing exactly the same issue long-term, although not yet.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.