Jaron Lanier Quotes

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

Jaron Lanier

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• I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Life
  • Book
  • Culture

• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Short

• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Losing

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Rest

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Education

• I don't understand anything about America's culture.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Culture
  • Understand

• Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Fantasy

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • You
  • Order

• If ever we deserved a candidate at this moment in our culture, that candidate is Donald Trump.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Culture
  • Trump
  • Moment

• The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • American
  • Politics
  • Accomplishment

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Duty

• In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Culture
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Culture
  • Religious

• I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Wish
  • Poverty

• It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

  

  Marian McPartland
  • Thinking

• I came home in the afternoon to sleep, and there was this e-mail from Comedy Central saying they were interested in having me be part of this new show called 'Jump Cuts'! So I called them right away, and the producer started laughing and said, 'We sent that e-mail one minute ago - you're so fast!'

  

  Lev Yilmaz
  • Home
  • Comedy
  • Sleep

• Look, it was an accident. Five thousand accidents happen every day - bizarre, tragic, farcical... they're Acts of God fit only to amaze the survivors and irritate the Insurance Company...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • God
  • Insurance

• A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

  

  Jaron Lanier
  • Culture
  • Accomplishment