#people

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#accepted #any #around #astonished #basically

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#brains #else #get #going #good

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

— Jaron Lanier

#object #only #people #technology #treat

Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#amount #because #distributed #exist #facebook

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think? ↗

— Philip Larkin

#i #i think #most #people #popularity

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#beings #creating #imagining #intelligent #people

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ↗

— Doug Larson

#enough #feats #greatest #impossible #know

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ↗

— Doug Larson

#full #happiness #looking #people #spectacular

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ↗

— Doug Larson

#clear conscience #conscience #lot #memory #mistake